You may already know about the gender-bending, sexually deviant Roman emperors Caligula, Nero, and Elagabalus, but do you know about the ill-fated Galba, who was a gruff, old-school Roman who nonetheless liked "muscular men"?
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Readings:
Grant, Michael. Twelve Caesars
Brudell, James L., "Some Myths and Anomalies in the Study of Roman Homosexuality" in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity, eds. Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon Provencal (New York: Routledge, 2006)
Morgan, Gwyn. 69 A.D.: The Year of the Four Emperors
Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars
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