Roman Gender Roles
...to penetrate or rape any thieves; often seen holding a fruit basket, club, or sickle.
Pederasty: known as sex with a boy (12-18 years old) by an older man; was very normal and legal in Rome; normally occurred until their beard began to show
Cinaedus/Mollis: term for adult males who want to be penetrated; these men often became victim of civil disabilities because this was non-normative
Tribas/Tribades: term for sexually perverse “butch” women who used uncommon orifices of their bodies for sex; often dressed and acted inappropriately
Said that rape was done to the adult male (bearded thief) orally, Female vaginally, and young boy anally.
Women and young boys were normal sex objects for Roman men.
Second Punic War
219 BCE: Hannibal Attacks Saguntum and captures it. This breaks Ebro River treaty, provoking the Second Punic War
The Second Punic War, fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 218-202 BC, was the final major Carthaginian military opposition to Rome's dominance in the Mediterranean.
218 BCE: Hannibal Crosses the Alps in 14 days with elephants (October) Hannibal arrives in Italy and defeats P. Cornelius Scipio at River Ticinus; defeats Sempronius Longus at Trebbia River.
217 BCE: Servilius was sent to Ariminium with his army. Roman disaster at Lake Trasimeno in central Italy, Hannibal defeats Romans led by Flaminius; 15,000 Romans killed. Romans appoint Fabius Maximum dictator. Fabius (aka “the delayer”) avoids contact with Hannibal's army but fails to avoid his escape from Campania.
216 BCE: Hannibal defeats Roman consuls C. Terentius Varro & L. Aemilius Paullus at Cannae; Paulus and 50,000 Romans and Roman army massacred in Cisapline, Gaul.
215 BCE: Many Greek cities joined Hannibal. Patavium (Padua) comes under Roman supremacy.; Lex Oppia:...
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