Brutal and Intriguing Facts About Celtic Life

Brutal and Intriguing Facts About Celtic Life

Natasha sheldon - September 2, 2019

Brutal and Intriguing Facts About Celtic Life
Julia Domna (wife of Septimius Severus) as Ceres, from the Portico of the Fountain with oil-lamp, 3rd century AD, Ostia Antica, Italy. Picture Credit: Carole Raddato. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Wikimedia Commons

28. Celtic Women were also quite sexually uninhibited — according to classical sources.

According to Cassius Dio, Celtic women also enjoyed a great deal more freedom over their sex lives than their classical counterparts. Dio reports how the wife of Argentocoxus, a Caledonian chief advised Julia Augusta, the wife of the Emperor Septimius Severus that Celtic women “fulfill the demands of nature in a much better way than do you, Roman women; for we consort openly with the best men, whereas you let yourselves be debauched in secret by the vilest.”

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