Talk:A Courtesan of Rome/@comment-38375899-20190221105941/@comment-36277500-20190320190524

People, you don't notice the most important thing... These times men and women were judged differently, according to double standards. Roman wife had to be faithful, while Roman husband had a right to have affairs with other women - high ranked ladies (mostly widows or divorcees), courtesans, female servants and slaves.

Women had nothing to say these times. Cleopatra was perfectly aware of the other women in Caesar's life (especially his third wife Calpurnia), but turned a blind eye as long as she had no rival in her own territory (Egypt). Antony, however, divorced his fourth wife to marry Cleopatra, but had an affair with her (and children from her) long before.

So why do you think that having an affair with Cleopatra (in Egypt) would prevent both men from having affair with a mere courtesan simultaneously (in Rome)? I'm trying to say that these times men were allowed to polyamory - that's how the world used to work.