Having recently read The Golden Ass (trans. Robert Graves), one episode particularly stayed with me: Photis invites the narrator to make to love her “as though she were a boy,” offering a deliberately transgressive variation on desire — a libertine prelude set in sharp contrast to his later devotion to the cult of Isis. #books
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger, l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Seneca/ #History #Nero #RomanLiterature #Seneca

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Juvenal/ #History #Juvenal #RomanLiterature #Seneca

The first chapter acknowledges the impact that Roman literature had on European portrayals of Cleopatra as an immoral outsider. #History #RomanLiterature #AncientEgypt #Cleopatra #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/369/the-reception-of-cleopatra-in-the-age-of-mass-medi/

Horace's Epistles are a series of letters, providing sage advice to various friends. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2170/horaces-epistles/ #History #Horace #RomanLiterature

Horace's Epodes is a book of 17 poems, published around 30-29 BCE. #History #RomanLiterature #Horace #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2192/horaces-epodes/

Horace's Epistles are a series of letters, providing sage advice to various friends.https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2170/horaces-epistles/ #Horace #RomanLiterature #History

Horace 's Epistles are a series of letters, providing sage advice to various friends. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2170/horaces-epistles/ #RomanLiterature #Horace #History