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MicroFlamer t1_j0cqxez wrote

I know that people here are clowning on the article but I think it is worth talking about. Another more egrigous example of HBO shoehorning incest is in Rome(2005) where >!Octavian has sex with his sister!<

This almost certainly didn't happen since

  1. Romans weren’t all that tolerant of incest

  2. When >!Octavian became emperor!< he was pretty pious based on how he treated his daughter after she committed adultery.

It's just weird

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GrumpyBearBank t1_j0cu2x6 wrote

Romans in that time period accused everyone of incest. It was a cultural thing to accuse others of. There’s almost never a real reason to think it really happened.

It’s important to note that morality with men in Rome worked very differently than with women. But yes Augustus didn’t fuck his sister.

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