Ancient Pornographic Artifact Discovered by the Thames

[icymist]

A bronze disk recently discovered in the mud near the Putney Bridge in London seemed innocent enough, but on close inspection it has turned out to be one of the oldest pieces of British pornographic art, according to the Guardian.

The bronze, which has been turned over to the Museum of London, dates to around the first century A.D., when London was a Roman outpost, and shows a couple in flagrante delicto.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/ancient-pornographic-artifact-discovered-by-the-thames/

[HopeHoops]

1. COOL!

[Behind the Aegis]

2. How very interesting.

Of course, I also find it interesting that the act of sex is often described as "pornographic."

[tama]

3. How very civilized

in civilized English sexual acts are written in Latin (what does flagrante delicto mean, btw?) and in civilized Latin they are written in Greek (-> graeca sunt, non leguntur). Greeks had no language they considered more highly civilized, to them all other languages sounded like bar bar, hence the onomatopoetic word barbarians.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I know how to use it, but didn't know the exact meaning...

in flagrante delicto -- "in blazing offence"

It is also used to mean, "caught in the act of committing a misdeed," "red-handed." I have usually seen it used to describe someone(s) getting caught in a sexual act, which is the reference in the OP.