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Castration was also used to eliminate potential opponents. In the Byzantine Empire, for a man to be castrated meant that he was no longer a man—half-dead, "life that was half death". [2] Castration also eliminated any chance of heirs being born to threaten either the emperor's or the emperor's children's place at the throne.
Empress Theodora and her court (mid 6th century). Theodora's chief eunuch holds the door hinge. [11]The Byzantine eunuchs formed a powerful and well-organized entity (in Ancient Greek — ἡ τῶν εὐνοῦχων τάξις), and in the structure of the Byzantine bureaucracy a special category of titles and ranks was reserved for them.
The history of this third sex is mentioned in the ancient Kama Sutra, which refers to people of a "third sex" (tritiya-prakriti). [44] Some of them undergo ritual castration, but the vast majority do not. They usually dress in saris or shalwar kameez (traditional garbs worn by women in South Asia) and wear heavy make-up. They typically live on ...
A Byzantine castrato from the 11th century. Castration as a means of subjugation, enslavement or other punishment has a very long history, dating back to ancient Sumer.In a Western context, eunuch singers are known to have existed from the early Byzantine Empire.
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Many slaves were supplied as non-Christian war captives, and slavery in the Byzantine Empire reached its maximum during the Balkan war campaigns of the 10th-century. [36] After the Byzantine warfare on Pagan Balkans was ended after the 10th-century, slavery in the Byzantine Empare gradually diminished the following centuries. [37]
Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.