courtesy of my Rome reading list:

Mar 05, 2009 15:52

And so we leave Pliny, sitting up late at night, laboring away at the Natural History, with a bra on his head.

- Amy Richlin, "Pliny's Brassiere," in Roman Sexualities, ed. Hallett, Judith P., and Marilyn B. Skinner, 1997, p. 216.

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