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A rolling wave. Painting details from: Arabesques, by Daniel Adel.

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Medievalists know that if they claim to have found 'homosexuals' in the Middle Ages they will provoke cries of outrage, and nothing else they say will be heard. So they avoid the term. Thus Allen Frantzen, on the very first page of Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America, declares categorically: “I call this a book about ‘same-sex love’ because the obvious choice, ‘homosexuality,’ is, for periods before the modern era, inaccurate. ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘homosexuals’ were not recognized concepts in the Middle Ages.” Apparently, the same is not true of 'heterosexuality' and 'heterosexuals.' Frantzen does not hesitate, throughout his volume, to oppose 'same-sex relations' to 'heterosexual relations.' The result is a Middle Ages that would make Pat Buchanan jump for joy, one from which all the homosexuals have been banished and only heterosexuals remain. This should give one pause. If homosexuality was not a 'recognized concept' in the Middle Ages, then heterosexuality wasn’t either.

Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies, James A. Schultz

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Gold and garnet necklace. Hellenistic period, ca. 2nd century B.C.

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I’m so glad I decided to reread histories by Herodotus. I love this guy. He so clearly wrote without any planning whatsoever.

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The ROMAN THEATRE OF ORANGE (Vaucluse, France) is the best preserved Roman theatre in Europe.

Built in the 1st century AD, it served the Roman colony of Arausio which was founded in 40 BC. The stage, which is 61 meters (200 ft) long and raised about one meter from the ground, is backed by a 37-meter-high (121 ft) wall whose height has been preserved completely. It is decorated with low reliefs commemorating the establishment of the Pax Romana, the central niche contains a monumental statue of the emperor Augustus. Mime, pantomime, poetry readings were the dominant forms of entertainment. Today, it is still used as its former function, primarily for opera and plays, alongside its use as a tourist spot.

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Mycenaean daggers/swords, 16th - 14th century BC

National Archaeological Museum, Athens-Greece

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gaius marius cannibalistic tyranny moments (florus 2.9.14 trans. e.s. forster)

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HELLENISTIC GOLD RING WITH GALLEY GEMSTONE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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Apollo and the Muses (and detail) by John Singer Sargent 

American, 1921

oil on canvas

MFA Boston

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Attimi successivi (Successive Moments), 2015 - Luciano Ventrone (b. 1942)

oil on linen  |  source:

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Azuki Furuya — The Three Graces (acrylic, oil, mixed media, on board, 2024)

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unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass

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Midnight in the garden of good and evil, Classic Vandal

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mary shelley writing a character heavily based off of percy shelley years after his death: Lol you know what would be so fucking funny

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Forum, Rome -- September 19th, 2024

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