A brief history of the afterlife | History Extra
This article from August summarises a new book from a Queensland academic about a topic that has been mentioned here a few times recently. Good reading.
At the bottom of this History Extra page, there were links including to one article on sex, which lead to another, etc. They make for some entertaining reading, and I learnt a few things on the way:
A brief history of sex and sexuality in ancient Greece
A brief history of sex and sexuality in Ancient Rome
(Can't say I had heard of the rumours of Julius Caesar "living as a girl" in the court of King Nicomedes when he was a young man. There's a good, fairly detailed explanation of this rumour - which seems more just about him being the "passive" partner of the King, in a .pdf at this link.)
Georgian Britain - sex in high places
I think I should be spending more on the History Extra site.
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