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Signos históricos
Print version ISSN 1665-4420
Abstract
PEREZ CARRANDI, Juan. Marginal sexuality through the poetry of Catulo, Martial and Juvenal. Sig. his [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.46, pp.242-285. Epub Oct 04, 2021. ISSN 1665-4420.
This article aims to analyze male relationships in ancient Rome through the study of the works of three important Latin poets, Catulo, Martial and Juvenal. After pointing out the useless nature of the legislation in this regard, we verify that the masculine relations of the Romans, although mostly through slaves, tended to be frequent in Rome, and proof of this is the monopoly of homoerotism in the representative poetry of period. Instead, moral censorship remained constant, but not to the point of allowing effective legal reproof.
Keywords : homosexuality; lex Scantinia; permissiveness; misogyny; sexual slavery.