Karen Dolby

We have hetairai for our pleasure, concubines for our daily needs, and wives to give us legitimate children and look after the housekeeping.

The word gymnasium comes from gymnos, meaning naked

the Romans used an enticing mixture of goats milk and urine to whiten their teeth

If your thieving rod harms the smallest shoots of this here vine, like it or not, this cypress rod will penetrate and plant a fig in you

Philip Larkin in his poem ‘Annus Mirabilis’

On the Nature of the Universe

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Governor Bradford wrote Of Plymouth Plantation as a detailed two-volume history.

The history of tattoos stretches back to the earliest days of mankind. The two oldest colour tattoos were found on a Stone Age man who died over 5,000 years ago and an ancient Egyptian priestess of the goddess Hathor dating back over four thousand years. Tattoos were well known in ancient Greece, although they were usually associated with slaves, and it is sometimes claimed that Anglo-Saxon kings were tattooed.

Heinrich Meibom’s 1639 work A Treatise on the Use of Flogging