Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado Talk Ancient Rome Will Never Get Old. They’re always complicated.”Obviously we can refer back to ancient Rome and say we took positive influence from their ideas about, for example, law and government. We’re in charge of ancient Rome now. There is absolutely no doubt that ancient Rome in particular but also bits of ancient Greece have been used to validate fascism, dictatorship, white supremacy. I was educationally brought up to see ancient Greece but also ancient Rome as a strongly binary-gendered culture that incorporated all kinds of homoeroticism — which is what Oscar Wilde and company picked up on.

Source: New York Times May 31, 2021 14:26 UTC