In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government. In antiquity, there were ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all ... of the afternoon and make their way to the baths. Men of all social classes mixed freely together.

London's origins as a city date back to the days of the Roman Empire, after the invaders arrived to Great Britain and established the town of Londinium. Nearly two millennia later, remnants of the ...

In ancient Rome, some men who did not fit neatly within gender categories were called “cinaedi.” They were usually adult males singled out for their extreme effeminacy and nonnormative sexual ...