Roman Pleasures
Roman Pleasures What the history books say : 'Sex and violence were as closely coupled in the ancient world as they arein the world of today. After Ovid's death the great Colosseum was built whichbrought the two elements to a nadir of depravity. The insatiable public wasable to see not only killings, but re-enactments of mythical couplings betweenbeasts and humans. The one of 'Pasiphae and the Bull' in which the bull waslowered in a harness on to the poor female victim may have been a type of...