Stomach-Churning

James Davidson

  • Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 by Simon Swain
    Oxford, 499 pp, £50.00, April 1996, ISBN 0 19 814772 4

Summer 165 AD. I dreamed of Athena with her aegis, in the form of the statue in Athens made by Phidias, and just as massive and beautiful. The aegis, moreover, was giving off a perfume, as sweet as could be, a perfume like wax ... It immediately occurred to me to have an enema of Attic honey.

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