love b.c.

Imagine how love worked in ancient times, when history was rarely written. Did two people go through the same promenade that we are so familiar with in this day and age?

History often portrays marriage as a loveless affair between two estates with a dynastic approach to creating a family tree. This is due to a flawed system of history. Only events that occur in relation to important figures is recorded in a manner that has any possibility of being preserved. The rest of our ancestor's stories fade into obscurity. Actually, it's quite romantic thinking about all the notable and quips that have ever occurred, spanning the entire spectrum of human events. But not until the Renaissance has the popularity of love emerged in media with the likes of Lord Byron and Shakespeare, Titian, and Botticelli. Before this, love was overtaken by the emotion of lust, which was scarce in itself.

Though there are few tangible artifacts that can prove this, it is in our DNA. By the way we act and feel towards each other. This is an ancient dance.