books.google.co.uk - The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream historical inquiry. Yet that is to underestimate the importance of 'gossip' and the act of thinking about an emperor's...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Power_and_Eroticism_in_Imperial_Rome.html?id=icxZpoRE-RIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePower and Eroticism in Imperial Rome