Thanks! I added a little more on the origin of pornographos. | by Jonathan Poletti | Medium

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1 min readNov 29, 2018

Thanks! I added a little more on the origin of pornographos. An important scholarly source for that is Madeline Henry’s essay in Athenaeus and His World: Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire.

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