Non-Fiction
The first time I ever heard about curse tablets was when I visited Bath and its namesake Roman bath. The curse tablets found there were written in Latin and addressed to local goddess Sulis, identified by the Romans with Minerva. A curse tablet, called tabella defixionis or defixio in Latin
Aphrodite
There are quite a few sayings and words derived from Greek mythology that we still use today. I put together this little collection of those related to sex and love: Adonis Adonis was so sexy, the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone fought over him. And the goddesses were not the only
Non-Fiction
People in the ancient world enjoyed a good laugh just as much as we do today. There were joke books in ancient Greece, jokes immortalised on papyrus from ancient Egypt and the oldest joke in the world was written on Sumerian stone tablets. A collection of ancient sex jokes well over 1000 years old.
