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Jonathan Poletti

Dec 17, 2018·1 min read

Yes, that’s more what the original readers get from arsenokoitês. Sarah Ruden’s Paul Among the People talks about how average Roman families had bodyguards for sons. Boy-theft was common, for slavery, sex, or both.

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