destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Sexual conquest is a metaphor widely used by the Romans for imperialism, but not always straightforwardly for Roman domination. Horace famously described the Romans as taken captive by captive Greece: the image of Roman culture colonized from within by a civilization they had defeated but perceived as intellectually and aesthetically superior might be expressed by myths in which a man raped, abducted, or enslaved a woman but fell in love with her, as embodied for instance by Achilles and Briseis. See also Catamite Greek love Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum Exoletus History of erotic depictions History of human sexuality Homosexuality in ancient Greece Homosexuality in ancient Rome Homosexuality in China Homosexuality in India Homosexuality in Japan Homoeroticism Latin profanity Pederasty Pederasty in ancient Greece Notes References Cited sources Further reading Ancona, Ronnie, and Greene, Ellen eds. Gender Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Skinner, Marilyn. Sexuality in Greek And Roman Culture. Blackwell Publishing. . External links Society of ancient Rome