Revolt of the Batavi

Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Dworkin argued that the physical act of penetration occupied women's bodies in a way that mirrored property law — the woman becomes territory.
02She cited Tolstoy, Kobo Abe, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Bashevis Singer as literary witnesses to the same argument.
03Dworkin explicitly denied in interviews that she called all sex rape — but the book never made that denial; readers inferred it anyway.

Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

The Batavians were Rome's most trusted cavalry — exempt from taxes, garrisoned near the emperor — until 69 AD, when their commander Julius Civilis led them to annihilate five Roman legions in a single revolt.