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Date: 2007-04-03 11:59 pm (UTC)
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YAY! We were trying to think of the name of the cup with buttsex, but I had no idea. Thank you so much for linking it up!

My best riffs on roman lesbians comes from my beloved professor, T. Corey Brennan, former drummer for The Lemonheads:

So check out his article - "The Poets Julia Balbilla and Damo at the Colossus of Memnon", in Classical World 91.5 (1998). Here you have the wife of Hadrian, who had been bopping around the Roman empire putting up statues to his boy toy - Antinous, having her own little romance with one of the women of the royal entourage as they traveled in Egypt - and then the graffito with a love poem between the two women.

And then there was the whole class lecture spent on the Trouble with Tribads. (for a scholarly/philological discussion of this, see his review and this response of Bernadette Brooten's awesome book (which I did not take to the con because of its lack of butt sex)
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YAY! We were trying to think of the name of the cup with buttsex, but I had no idea. Thank you so much for linking it up!

My best riffs on roman lesbians comes from my beloved professor, <a href="http://classics.rutgers.edu/faculty/tcb/tcb.html">T. Corey</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Corey_Brennan">Brennan</a>, <a href="http://www.evandando.co.uk/interviews/coreyinterview0305.htm">former drummer</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lemonheads">The Lemonheads</a>:

So check out his article - "The Poets Julia Balbilla and Damo at the Colossus of Memnon", in Classical World 91.5 (1998). Here you have the wife of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian">Hadrian</a>, who had been bopping around the Roman empire putting up statues to his boy toy - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous">Antinous</a>, having her own little romance with one of the women of the royal entourage as they traveled in Egypt - and then the graffito with a love poem between the two women.

And then there was the whole class lecture spent on the Trouble with Tribads. (for a scholarly/philological discussion of this, see <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.05.07.html">his review</a> and <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.12.03.html">this response</a> of Bernadette Brooten's awesome book (which I did not take to the con because of its lack of butt sex) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Between-Women-Christian-Homoeroticism/dp/0226075923/ref=sr_1_1/002-6685105-0566410?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175644559&sr=8-1"><a Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism</a>, and href="http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2002/04/0455.php">this thread</a> from 2002). So, yeah, there's your roman lesbianism with there.

Date: 2007-04-04 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the_antichris.livejournal.com
Oh, thank you for that! Those links look awesome. I managed to be in London when they were showing the Warren Cup mini-exhibition at the British Museum, which was a bit of luck to cancel out all my usual bad travel timing. They also had a little clay lamp with some improbably athletic Roman lesbians, which was fun.

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