getting reaaal tired of only belatedly learning about all the queer aspects of history I was never taught
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I STUDIED ANCIENT ROME FOR ALL OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AND DID 4 YEARS OF LATIN, BUT A RANDOM TUMBLR POST IS WHAT TELLS ME CAESAR WAS BI
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I don't even care if Suetonius is a main source for this, he's also the source for Nero & Agrippina's incest and I learned THAT in year 10.
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NEW RULE, IF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT NERO DID TO POPPAEA YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW CAESAR WAS KING NICOMEDES IV'S TWINK LOVER
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I can't remember where I came across it, but apparently he was once called "Every woman's man and every man's woman."
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Replying to @dtmooreeditor @fozmeadows
It may have been some sort of political jibe, but I feel there's a fair degree of admiration in it.
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There's apparently another quip about how Caesar subjugates the Gauls, but Nicomedes subjugates Caesar.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
There's a lot of quips re Nicomedes, probably without truth to them; but he likely was bi, like many Romans of his class
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