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A mosaic depicting Leda and the swan, circa third century AD, from the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, Palea Paphos; now in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia.Explicit erotic art was common in ancient Greece and Rome. Sex is everywhere on Athenian black-figure and red-figure vases of the sixth and fifth centuries BC. The Romans too were surrounded by…