Extending and complimenting recent investigations into nocturnal Roman underwear comes another research article which touches, albeit briefly, on the same subject. In 2003, professor Kelly Olson at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, published ‘Roman Underwear Revisited’ (Classical World 96.2) And, according to professor Olson, another reading of the very same body […]
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Did the Romans keep their underwear on in bed?
The subject had remained shrouded in the mists of antiquity until it was tackled by Neil Adkin, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln – who shone some much needed light into this once murky area with findings published in an article for the journal The Classical World. 93 (2000) 619-20 The professor […]