The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2) / Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity

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TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST (GERMAN) EDITION .

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

INTRODUCTION. Conception and Contents of the History of a Disease in general.

AUTHORITIES.

FIRST SECTION. Influences which promoted the generation of

BIBLIOGRAPHY. AUTHORITIES AND HISTORIANS.

INDEX OF GREEK AND LATIN WORDS EXPLAINED IN THE TEXT, AND OF

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

Anchors for footnotes 27 and 59 were missing and have been added in appropriate places.

The Orphean hymn in footnote 12 is in error. The correction is shown with the footnote.

(the act the Lesbian) in footnote 327 is erroneous but could be ‘to act ...’ or ‘the act of ...’ so remains uncorrected.

The book contains several blank pages and long and multi page footnotes hence there are gaps in, and variable spacing of, page numbers. Many index entries refer directly to muli-page footnotes, where this is clearly the case, the index link directs to the footnote.

An index to both volumes is included in volume II. This has been copied into the end of this volume by the transcriber.

THE
PLAGUE OF LUST


Volume I


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THE
PLAGUE OF LUST,

BEING A HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE

IN

CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

and Including:—Detailed Investigations into the
Cult of Venus, and Phallic Worship, Brothels,
the
Νοῦσος Θήλεια (Feminine disease) of the
Scythians, Paederastia, and other Sexual
Perversions amongst the Ancients,

AS CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS

THE EXACT INTERPRETATION OF THEIR WRITINGS

BY
Dr. JULIUS ROSENBAUM

TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH (UNABRIDGED) GERMAN EDITION

BY

AN OXFORD M.A.

The First of Two Volumes

Paris
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