[lbo-talk] Don't Be Silly (Was Re: Michelangelo , . . . .)

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Aug 26 17:58:46 PDT 2007


"andie" wrote:
>
>...You ask whether he liked boys or girls, same as you
>can ask about...Julius Caesar (liked both)...

There is absolutely no historical evidence of Caesar's supposed bisexual paedophilia. There is much evidence that he had affairs with very many Senatorial wives, especially those of his antagonists. But the only alleged incident of homosexuality, spread about by his bitter reactionary enemy Lucullus, concerned his persuasion of the notoriously effeminate King Nikomedes (anything but a "boy") of Bithynia to finance rental of a big fleet with which he saved Lucullus from defeat at the siege of Mityline. Lucullus's revenge was an assault against Caesar's *dignitas* by claiming, without any evidence at all, that Caesar had exchanged his sexual favors in return for that fleet. The canard was used against Caesar all his life by the oligarchs and repeated down the millennia by prurient "historians."

Shane Mage

"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62



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