can we just look at this masterpiece?? it’s based on the myth that Messalina (Roman Empress, Claudius’ consort) won a competition against a sex worker that consisted on which woman could take more men. Needless to say Messalina won, taking 25 men in 24 hours, and the sculpture depicts the exhaustion after it.
And I say myth because even though some people talk about it as a fact, it’s probably a smear tactic.
Another angle:
we say it wasn’t until the Victorians that we surpassed the Romans but actually the Romans invented running trains
