/u/jlenders's posts in /r/AskHistorians
When Foucault was writing on ancient Greek sexual ethics in the Use of Pleasure, did he do an accurate retelling of how the ancient Greeks thought about sexuality? Has Foucault been criticized by scholars of ancient Greece?
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Why did the Roman Empire have what they called 'triumvirates'? Did they think this was necessary for some reason?
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My understanding is that many people believe Galileo Galilei was tortured for propounding the heliocentric model of the universe. But is it true/accurate that he was tortured, or was Galileo just given a sentence?
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