The timeliness of this collection of papers will be impressed upon every reader. While much has been written about Greece's contribution to modern discourses of homosexuality, Rome's significant role has either been overlooked or consigned to the dustbin of the history, with the Roman paradigm of sexuality being stereotyped as one in which unbridled lust and perversion reigned supreme. This fixation upon Roman sexual licentiousness goes back, of course, to early Christianity. Thanks to film, television, video, and the Internet, it is more lurid than ever; and homosexuality—above all male homosexuality—occupies a central place. In her introduction, however, Ingleheart underlines the fact that “Roman homosexuality itself is broad, and therefore demands a comparably broad cultural exploration,” so that the reception of Roman homosexuality needs to be examined “under a wide lens;” (9) and it is indeed such a lens that is applied in this collection of fifteen papers.