You make me eager to plunge right into Rome :)

Which is saying a lot, because the Romans have always struck me as being like - well, like Americans. More concerned with conquering than with philosophy. I get so tired of listening to American sports commentators droning on and on over whether So-and-so will win a contest, and saying nothing as to whether the sports figure in question is actually doing a good job, irrespective of the results of the contest. I can just see a Roman commentator covering the Sex Olympics: "Yes, I think the results here are certain - he has that slave well in hand now. We can expect submission at any moment . . ." Mind you, there are times when I think the entire history of sex has been run that way. Thanks much for your illuminating remarks on Roman sexuality, which can illicit no other response from me than to make me pick up Petronius again, and from thence on to drier sources. Heather [E-mail]   [Home Page]