Suffodit inguinal: Genital attacks on Roman emperors and other primates. (2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Suffodit inguinal: Genital attacks on Roman emperors and other primates. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Suffodit inguinal: Genital attacks on Roman emperors and other primates
- Authors:
- Betzig, Laura
- Abstract:
- Abstract : When Julius Caesar was stabbed, 23 times, on the Ides of March, at least one of the daggers is supposed to have gone into his groin. He wasn't the last Roman to have his privates attacked. And he wasn't the last primate. In competition for sexual access, gonads are occasionally targeted: canine incisions in monkey and ape scrota are not uncommon; and rumors had a number of Roman emperors—from Caligula and Nero, to Galba, Vitellius, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla, Elagabalus, to Balbinus, Pupienus and Valerian over the course of the third century crisis—done in with their genitals at risk, or with their genitals cut off.
- Is Part Of:
- Politics and the life sciences. Volume 33:Number 1(2014)
- Journal:
- Politics and the life sciences
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 1(2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 1 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0033-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 54
- Page End:
- 68
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Subjects:
- Sexual selection, -- human evolution, -- Pan troglodytes, -- eusociality, -- sterile castes
Biopolitics -- Periodicals
Human behavior -- Periodicals
Biology -- Periodicals
Political science -- Periodicals
320.01 - Journal URLs:
- http://politicsandthelifesciences.org/ ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/pls ↗
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences ↗ - DOI:
- 10.2990/33_1_54 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0730-9384
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- Legaldeposit
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