Article: Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman ARt, 100 B.C. - A.D. 250.

Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250, by John R. Clarke, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998; 390 pages, $39.95.

The sexual revolution has reached the ancient world. A customer at Barnes & Noble can choose among glossy coffee-table books illustrating the contents of the infamous gabinetto segreto of the Museo Nazionale in Naples, where the Bourbon kings locked away the more scandalous prizes of their plundering excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, which could perhaps be revealed--until quite recently to the gentleman visitor only--for the price of a bribe to the smirking custodian. However, the recent glut of ...

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