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<p>[QUOTE="ycon, post: 4979434, member: 91771"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] I actually purchased the coin for my collection of "gay" rulers. Of course that's a major anachronism, but as long as we're calling any Roman "gay" you can hardly say that Constans was the first. I mean Hadrian made his boyfriend into a god, and Galba was notorious for being into other grizzled soldier types, rather than the teenage boys who were generally socially accepted as lovers. Even Caesar was famously the beloved of one of Rome's client kings. Don't forget the (perhaps apocryphal) stories of Elagabalus prostituting himself from the palace, or of Nero's own gay wedding. </p><p><br /></p><p>Though homosexuality wasn't as ubiquitous in Ancient Rome as it was in Greece, it was very common in hellenizing circles and in the military. And there are a fair few emperors who are known or rumoured to have had homosexual tendencies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ycon, post: 4979434, member: 91771"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] I actually purchased the coin for my collection of "gay" rulers. Of course that's a major anachronism, but as long as we're calling any Roman "gay" you can hardly say that Constans was the first. I mean Hadrian made his boyfriend into a god, and Galba was notorious for being into other grizzled soldier types, rather than the teenage boys who were generally socially accepted as lovers. Even Caesar was famously the beloved of one of Rome's client kings. Don't forget the (perhaps apocryphal) stories of Elagabalus prostituting himself from the palace, or of Nero's own gay wedding. Though homosexuality wasn't as ubiquitous in Ancient Rome as it was in Greece, it was very common in hellenizing circles and in the military. And there are a fair few emperors who are known or rumoured to have had homosexual tendencies.[/QUOTE]
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