LGBT Meets SPQR

Asexuality in men was often portrayed negatively in Greco-Roman myth, as Greek and Roman men were expected to marry and continue their famil...

Name : Servius Date: 4th – 5th century CE Region: [modern Italy] Citation :   Commentary on the Aeneid, 9.433 9.433...

 Avis Resurgens: Fabula de Caeneo is a 250-word first person short story in Latin on the life and adventures of the trans warrior Caeneus. ...

Name : Faustus Sabaeus Date : 16th century CE   Region :  Brixia [Brescia, modern Italy] Citation :    Illustrated Myths ...

Name : Faustus Sabaeus Date : 16th century CE   Region :  Brixia [Brescia, modern Italy] Citation :    Illustrated Myths ...

Name : Faustus Sabaeus Date : 16th century CE   Region :  Brixia [Brescia, modern Italy] Citation :    Illustrated Myths ...

Name : Johannes Posthius Date :   1537 – 1597 CE Region : [modern Germany] Citation :  Poems Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphos...

Cyparissus still weeps, mourning his slain stag. When he saw his lover's limbs covered in bark, Apollo exclaimed, "O forest, why do...

Name : Servius Date: 4th – 5th century CE Region: [modern Italy] Citation :   Commentary on the Aeneid, 10.189 “FOR...

Name :    Plutarch Date :      46 – 119 CE Region:     Chaeronea [modern Greece]   Citation :     Compendium Contra Stoicos...

Achilles Mourns Patroclus Name :  Dictys Cretensis Date :   1st – 4th century CE Region :   Crete [?] [modern Greece] Citat...

Name :  Antoninus Liberalis Date :  2nd – 3rd century CE Region :  Unknown Citation :    Metamorphoses 32 Unlike si...

Name :  Claudian Date :   370 – 404 CE  Region :    Alexandria [modern Egypt] Citation : The Abduction of Proserpina, 2.128...

Although it does not mention the transformation aspect of the myth of Caeneus, this version does attest to his invulnerability.   Struck by ...

Name : Servius Date: 4th – 5th century CE Region: [modern Italy] Citation :   Commentary on the Aeneid, 1.30 It is ...

Name : Martial Date : c. 40 – 100 CE Region : Bilbilis, Hispania [modern Spain] Citation : Epigrams  2.84.1-2 Note : ...

  Name :  Pausanias Date :        110 – 180 CE Region:     Lydia [modern Turkey] Citation :      Description of Greece  1.4...

Ace Champion Atalanta Name : Lactantius Placidus Date :  5th or 6th century CE Region :    Unknown Citation :  Plots of Ovi...

The Abduction of Hylas Name :  Vatican Mythographers Date :   10th century CE Region :   Unknown Citation :   Vatican Mytho...

Name :   Ovid Date :     43 BCE – 17 CE Region :    Sulmo [modern Italy] Citation : Metamorphoses, 10.162 - 219 You, ...