Did People in Ancient Rome and Greece Love the Same Way We Do?

Did People in Ancient Rome and Greece Love the Same Way We Do?

From the time of ancient Greece and Rome, love has been a source of both rapture and ruin. Image: Erastes (lover) and eromenos (beloved) kiss in a scene an Attic cup created circa 480 BC. Public Domain Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with the difficult emotion of love– in all its glory and calamity – and come out the other side unharmed. By Konstantine Panegyres Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat…