Fleshpots of Antiquity The Lives and Loves of Ancient Courtesans
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780766136991
Subjects: Women's Studies - History; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: THE MATTER OF the construction, arrangement, and management of the ancient houses of prostitution would be an extremely large work, but it may nevertheless be treated here, though briefly, yet profitably, for ordinarily information on them is given in such a disjointed, desultory manner, being scattered in odd corners through works on ancient manners, that a reasonably rounded picture of them is seldom to be found.