Notes

Preface

Introduction

THE AUTHOR

REALISM

FORGERIES

PROSTITUTION

PAEDERASTIA

CHAPTER NOTES

9 Gladiator obscene

17 Impotence

26 Peepholes in brothels

34 Silver Skeleton

36 Marsyas

40 A pie full of birds

56 Contumelia

116 Life in Rome

116 Legacy hunting

119 Castration

127 Circe’s voice

131 Sputum in charms

131 The “infamous finger"

138 The dildo

The Cordax