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15277922 No.15277922 [Reply] [Original]

>not a single illicit love affair of note was recorded in ancient greek or roman history
>all of a sudden during the middle ages many letters, romances and folk tales about illicit love affairs start popping up

Did Christianity give rise to cuckoldry?

>> No.15277935

>>15277922
Wasn't Catullus' Lesbia the wife of some famous politician?

>> No.15277943

>>15277922
Who is Helen of Troy?

>> No.15277951

>>15277943
lmao rekt

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read Satyricon

The association of art and political power was a good filter for virtuous propaganda. Luckily there were perverts like Petronius to record the seedy side of reality

>> No.15277963

>>15277922
nah, you're just not well read
There is a great story where an ancient queen fell in love with a bull and had a kid with it

>> No.15278006

LITERALLY the Illiad and Odyssey

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>>15277963
Pasiphaë the witch queen of Crete, anon, immortal daughter of Helios, sister of Circe, herself bewitched to fall in love with the Cretan Bull- Daedalus himself accommodated her with a cow suit- and so mother of the Minotaur soon after (Ariadne's half brother and therefore Dionysus' brother-in-law) whom Theseus later slew.

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>>15277922
>there are more documents from 1000 years ago than 2000 years ago
amazing.
romans wrote everyday communications in cheap ink on thin tablets of wood which rarely survive.
when the first vindolanda tablets were excavated, they blackened on exposure to the air and became unreadable. even the surviving ones take a lot of deciphering since the ink has smeared.