How historically accurate is this shit? Did people ever really live like this or is it purely an idealized antiquity fantasy? For example the huge-ass brothel-cum-temple with hundreds of permanent whore/priestess residents, did something like that exist? Apologies if this should rather go on /his/ but I'm asking about this specific book, after all.
The latter
cumbrained parisian dreck
>>24117644>Crucifixion on female slave because my dick said soBro even Turkish soldiers at Armenian genocide didn't do this
>>24117644All of this 19th century and fin de siècle orientalist, exotic, tropical, non-native, foreign, distant bullshit is straight up just unreadable garbage and 100% bullshit. The only book doing this sort of charade worth reading is Flaubert's Salammbô.
>>24117696Thanks for the rec. I hadn't read any other books of the kind, I thought Aphrodite was interesting almost in the way of some sociological-leaning scifi that explains some weird manners and rituals on an alien planet. But I don't really feel the need to read 10 more books of this kind, indeed.
>>24117696who was that artist who thought the zenith of human life was fucking teenaged tropical islanders. fuckin twaddle
>>24117707couldn't be me I'm not an artist
>>24117707Oh.
>>24117644>hundreds of permanent whore/priestess residents, did something like that existI don't know about permanent whores, but Herodotus in detailing different dowry systems notes one where every woman before getting married must sell herself at the temple. The system was designed to keep uggos in the temple for life waiting for their trick
>>24117780bingo. 19th c. french hentai
>>24117780>ywn be an 18th century colonialist
>>24117799Thank God. Kys, retarded sodomite pedophile.
>>24117942You & Claude are literally wokey womyns
>>24117644Pierre Louys is gigabased but this is extremely elaborate and refined pornography, and I don't think Louys pretended it was anything else, at least after Bilitis was exposed, which was proof of Louys talent as a poet and Greek scholar rather than anything else. The songs of Bilitis were precisely made to be a forgery of antiques and so were under tight constrains to fool specialists (which it did for years). This was not the case for Aphrodite. Read Trois filles de leur mère by him for true porn kino, although it was set in then contemporary times and is mostly autobiographical.
>>24117942>sodomiteRetard, this is the quintessential /u/chad writer.
>>24117644Temple prostitution was real. Google it.
>>24117780>spreading giftsGlad that hedonistic philosophical zombie is dead.
>>24118795seems like dubious claims
According to every book I have read on Mesopotamia, yes. Check out the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East
>>24119556It’s bs. Just like claims of Phoenicians immolating their infants in sacrifice
