A belated Valentine’s Day

From the makers of The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius and Tiberius Goes Fishing:

Love stories that Hollywood won’t be making any time soon

 

DIDO AND ANANIAS

 

CALIGULA AND INCITATUS

Remember, kids: Just say “Neigh!”

(Caligula was fond of horses, but rarely stable.)

 

NERO AND AGRIPPINA

Theirs was a love that ruled an empire – and shocked a world.

“Nero!”
“Mother!”
“Nero!”
“Mother!”
“Nero!”
“Mother!”

 

PEDRO I AND INÊS DE CASTRO

Pedro: Meu pai te matou – mas eu te amo !

Ines : Says nothing ; sits there being dead

 

ANDREW MARVELL AND A SALAD

My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow

(A sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion excites his languid spleen; an attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean.)

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