Sexuality in Rome Through the Lens of The Sopranos

An analysis of relationships in the early 2000s TV show and how they correlate with the Roman way of life

Sexual relations between the genders have been subject to close analysis since the sexual revolution of the 1960s. With the re-examination of the one dominant man/one submissive woman familial structure that had existed in America for well over a century, people looked to the ancients for precedents. Though some documentation on Greek relationships exis…