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There's several Roman Emperors (Caligula, Elagabalus, Carinus, etc) who have a reputation for being sexually perverted. In those types of cases is it usually a justified reputation, or just the result of later historians wanting to paint them in a bad light?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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