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    Amatoria. In later times, Philaenis was remembered for her reputation of licentiousness. A fictional character named Philaenis appears in the Epigrams of...
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  • sexual relationships. In the Graeco-Roman era, a sex manual was written by Philaenis of Samos, possibly a hetaira (courtesan) of the Hellenistic period (3rd–1st...
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    about it by Philaenis and Archestratus and the other writers of such stuff; and in book VII he says: one is therefore not to study Philaenis, or the Gastronomy...
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    have a long history. In the Greco-Roman era, a sex manual was written by Philaenis of Samos, possibly a hetaira (courtesan) of the Hellenistic period (3rd–1st...
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    The Marble Arch, also Arch of the Philaeni (Italian: Arco dei Fileni), formerly known in Libya as El Gaus (i.e. "The Arch"), was a monument in Libya built...
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  • erotic author (in a tradition that included two other women writers, Philaenis and Elephantis): she wrote a book about sexual positions. Photius, Bibliotheca...
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    Lazzat Un Nisa List of Indian inventions and discoveries Mlecchita vikalpa Philaenis The Perfumed Garden Song of Songs Sengupta cites only on the 300/400 BCE...
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    Cyrene, who shared a border with the Carthaginian empire at the Altars of Philaeni. Ptolemy was also the first Egyptian ruler to enter into formal relations...
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    of philosophy Melissus of Samos, philosopher Nicaenetus of Samos, poet Philaenis (4th-3rd century BC), courtesan and writer Polycrates (6th century BC)...
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  • Polycrates was the author of the sex manual traditionally attributed to Philaenis of Samos. John Lemprière (1839). A Classical Dictionary containing a copious...
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    critical attention. In the early 17th century, John Donne wrote "Sapho to Philaenis", returning to the idea of Sappho as a hypersexual lover of women. The...
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  • a lesbian. ipsārum tribadum tribas, Philaeni rēctē, quam futuis, vocās amīcam ("Lesbian of all lesbians, Philaenis, you are right to call the woman you...
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  • Epigraphik. 12: 183–195. JSTOR 20180553. Vessey, D. W. Thomson (1976). "Philaenis". Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 1: 76–82. Smith, Philip (1869)...
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    of a sex manual written in the fourth century BC that is attributed to Philaenis of Samos have survived. Modern scholars generally regard it as a work...
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  • preserved some choliambic verses of his, in which he defends the Samian Philaenis, claiming that the popular sex manual attributed to her was really written...
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    published between AD 86 and 103, satirized a female athlete he named Philaenis, who played ball in a bikini-like garb quite bluntly, making her drink...
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    tophet rituals. Josephine Crawley Quinn has proposed that myth of the Philaeni brothers in Libya had its roots in Punic myth and Carolina López-Ruiz has...
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    champions were brothers, called Philaeni, and the border was marked by two pillars called the "Altars of the Philaeni". The African territorial boundary...
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    a lavish night ceremony in the presence of Mussolini, the Arch of the Philaeni near Ra's Lanuf was inaugurated, marking the border between Tripolitania...
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    composers and the generation of Szymanowski. Statkowski's two operas were Philaenis (or Filenis) (1897, first performed in 1904) and Maria (1903-4, first...
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    homosexuality. He cites historical examples of lesbianism, such as Sappho, Philaenis, and the Book of Romans. 1683: The Kingdom of Denmark criminalizes "relations...
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  • Cambridge, CUP. pp. 146–159. Sandra Boehringer (2014). "What is named by "Philaenis"? Gender, function, and authority of an antonomastic figure". In Mark...
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  • half of the first century, along with Lucius Saenius Faustus. Umbricia Philaenis, inurned in a cinerarium from Clusium in Etruria, dating from the first...
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  • Robert Starer (1924–2001): Apollonia Roman Statkowski (1859–1925): Maria, Philaenis Agostino Steffani (1653–1728): Henrico Leone Walter Steffens (born 1934):...
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    The Arch of the Philaeni, March 1937...
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  • work was apparently similar to the pornographic sex-manual attributed to Philaenis. The work was probably written in prose, as Botrys' earlier paignia had...
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  • near Ra's Lanuf, and the modern Italian commemorative arch featuring the Philaeni stood here before its destruction in 1973. On 3 April 1941 there was a...
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  • of Megara Phiale Painter Phialo Phidias Phidippus Phigalia Philaemon Philaenis Philagrius of Epirus Philaidae Philammon Philander (mythology) Philemon...
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    II. 1, University Library, Bologna c.1538? Apologia Lysiae Pauli Riccii Philaeni Siculi nomine haereseos detenti Hercule II Duce III foeliciter imperante...
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