In Plutarch’s Lives, the first-century essayist relays an anecdote in which Cato the Elder expels a man named Manilius from the senate after Cato learns of a deeply immoral act he had committed: Manilius had kissed his wife—that is to say Manilius’s own wife—in public and in front of their daughter. In her biography Cleopatra: A Life…
Anne Thériault
Anne Thériault lives in Toronto. She is the author of My Heart is an Autumn Garage. Her work can be found in the London Review of Books, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.