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Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne

MYSTERIOUS: Did people in ancient rome and greece love the same way we do perhaps even more hopelessly - You Need To See This

Galen Pliny Rome Wikimedia British Museum Italy
Venus and Adonis depicted in a work by Simon Vouet. British Museum, CC BY-NC

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her:

I love you so much, and we are not used to separations. So I stay awake most of the night thinking of you […] The only time I am free from this misery is when I am in court and wearing myself out with my friends’ lawsuits. You can judge then what a life I am leading, when I find my rest in work and distraction in troubles and anxiety.

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