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May 2000 Cover
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Dawn Ivory
Reading of Dawn's fascination with ancient Roman toilets (April 2000 - click here), a thoughtful reader sent in a review of Keith Hopkins's
A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman
Empire. In it, Hopkins sends time travelers back to pre-eruption Pompeii to explore that ill-fated
cittą's diurnal and nocturnal dramas.
"The book could well-be subtitled "Everyday defecation and phallus-fixation in ancient Pompeii," raves the
Economist's reviewer, noting that fully twenty percent of the book's illustrations are of erect
penises. If only every religous history tome were so focused!
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