In this way, the stereotype of a Roman, commander and conqueror was preserved. It was also important that the Roman had sex with a man in some way socially inferior (younger, inferior, slave). The attack on Caesar resulted from the fact that was supposed to be a passive party during intercourse. The episode in Bithynia was repeatedly the subject of satirical comments, but it did not affect Caesar’s political career. From this it can be inferred that Caesar was bisexual, in the late a period known for his high-profile romances with numerous women bisexuality was common among the Roman aristocracy at that time. It has often been suggested – probably rightly – that they were lovers. In 80 BCE a young Gaius Julius Caesar arrived to the court of Nicomedes IV, king of Bithynia (North-West Asia Minor), Caesar was sent there on the orders of praetor Marcus Minucius Termus from Asia to get the Bithynian fleet to help with the siege of the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. It is worth presenting a controversial excerpt from Caesar’s life. Generally speaking, in civilian life, homosexuality was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evidenced by references in source texts, which noted outrageous, characteristic and infrequent things), and such relations were tolerated, as I mentioned, if the Roman citizen was an active party (in otherwise, Roman blood was contaminated.
