Classical Studies 3350F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Roman Currency, Light Skin, Oral Sex
14 Feb 2018
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In the modern day the ideal shape is hourglass. It is the woman who is the active partner that is the deviant one: they are the ones censured by the authors. High art": do not differ significantly in content from those in public spaces, most found in cubicula, some are in triclinia and hallways, not private, erotica viewed by all ages, classes and both genders. Roman villa under the farnesina: 19 bce: attendants in the room, the romans probably viewed slaves as animate furniture. In some of the paintings the woman is wearing yellow: wedding night, when the frescos were first found the archaeologists believed that the women were prostitutes. Augustus and her husband: julia and agrippa. House of the vetii in pompeii: cook"s bedroom: thought to be the bedroom of the cook as it is the closest room to the kitchen, small dark room, walls were white washed, fresco, stripped mattress, carved bed legs.
