Was domitian gay
It’s surprising just how many Roman Emperors could be defined in today’s terms as LGBT. So, what are the stories and can we confirm the facts two thousand years later. Well, let’s depart through a list of Roman Emperors who were in same-sex relationships and were very definitely genderqueer. It’s a jaw-dropping list!
Kicking off the LGBT Roman Emperors list…with Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar: The Roman poet Catullus sarcastically commented that Caesar was “the husband to every woman and the wife to every man”. As a adolescent man, the future dictator of Rome spent day on military campaigns in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The kingdom of Bithynia was a client articulate of the empire and Julius spent what was widely felt to be an inordinate period of time with its ruler, King Nicomedes IV.
Much older than Julius Caesar – and unfavourably portrayed as a lecherous geriatric ruling in the decadent East and coveting the youthful Roman. This sexual liaison was used as propaganda back in Rome against the ambitious Caesar. Suggesting that he had gone ‘native’ while out in the East and succumbed to all that sleaze and corruption. Allowing
Here, Have A List Of Bisexual Roman Emperors
Tiberius: After moving to Capri it is recorded that he held orgies there where “both sexes were present”. Idc if it’s part of a fetish; if the fetish involves someone of the same gender, i will consider that evidence enough.
Domitian: Accused by Seneca of being “serviced” by his male cupbearer, Earinus.
I’ll donate you Claudius - I believed I mixed him up with one of the many people to have Claudius in their name, probably Nero.
Vespasian and Titus were on the disputed list because there is only modern speculation, and little or no evidence in historical sources. All of this is speculation, really, as concepts of bisexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality and asexuality didn’t remain. But I believe I may have marked Vespasian as disputed because of a rumour regarding Josephus, or possibly because of military service and the prevalence of military homosexuality during that period? I can’t remember Titus’ cause at all, this was written about three years ago.
Julius Caesar is not on this list because he is not considered a roman emperor. The empire truly began with the formation of the Principate by Augustus. Caesar preda
Demystifying Domitian: Rome’s Most Misunderstood Emperor?
Few of Rome’s first emperors have such an undeservedly damning reputation as Domitian (81 – 96 AD).
He comes down to us as the dark sheep of the Flavian dynasty. A cruel, ruthless autocrat. A powerful, paranoid psychopath who purged the Senate and impregnated – and subsequently murdered – his niece.
Such was Domitian’s sadism that one of his favourite alleged pastimes was to stab flies with a stylus (sharp pen) before plucking their wings out one by one.
Our sources for Domitian describe depths of depravity unseen in Rome since the reign of Nero some thirty years earlier. In fact, such were the parallels Rome’s senators drew with the all-singing, all-dancing emperor Nero that even during his reign people would allude to Domitian as calvus Nero (the “Bald Nero”).
Behind his back, of course.
When Domitian was murdered, stabbed to death by his freedman in the imperial chambers on the Palatine Hill, the Senate famous. In the practice of what we now dial Damnatio Memoriae (the damnation of one’s memory), they pulled down his statues, removed all images of him from public spaces, and carved his
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The Emperor Nerva NERVA, Roman Emperor born (d. 98); Although much of his life remains obscure, Nerva was considered a knowledgeable and moderate emperor by ancient histories, a view which was later popularized by the 18th century scholar Edward Gibbon, who termed the rule of Nerva and his four successors as that of the Five Good Emperors. By adopting Trajan as his heir, Nerva is said to have established a tradition of succession through adoption among the emperors which followed. Like all the others of his age he enjoyed women and his boys. Contemporary gossip records that his most celebrated liaison was with this imperial predecessor, Domitian. It appears that Domitian, while a student, had the equal problem most modern students have – a shortage of funds. So he did what some enterprising young scholars continue to do today: he turned a few tricks, one of whom was the Roman senator, and later Emperor, Nerva. Rene Viviani RENÉ VIVIANI (d: 1925) French politician and founder of the journal Humanité, born; A politician of the Third Republic . | ||||