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A sensuous narrative centers on a celebrated courtesan in Alexandria, tracing her relationships, public life, and the social rituals that surround desire. Structured in five books, the episodes range from intimate encounters and bacchanalian festivities to dreams, public tumult, and meditations on beauty, piety, mortality, and the body's place in civic culture. The text presents eroticism and devotion without moralizing, portraying physical love as both earthly pleasure and a source of dignity, while following the courtesan's fortunes through scenes of passion, reverence, loss, and transformation.

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Title: Ancient Manners; Also Known As Aphrodite

Author: Pierre Louÿs

Illustrator: Édouard Zier

Release date: June 11, 2011 [eBook #36378]
Most recently updated: September 24, 2019

Language: English

Credits: Produced by James D. Simmons

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Ancient Manners

COMPLETE AND INTEGRAL TRANSLATION
INTO ENGLISH

by Pierre Louÿs

Illustrated by ED. ZIER

Privately printed for Subscribers only

PARIS

This
Translation of
Ancient Manners
was executed on the
Printing Presses of CHARLES
HERISSEY, at Evreux, (France),
for Mr. CHARLES CARRINGTON,
Paris, Bookseller et Publisher,
and is the only
complete English
version
extant.

This Edition on Large Paper,
is limited to 1000 copies of
which this is
No . . . . . . . .


Contents

PREFACE

BOOK I
I. Chrysis
II. On the Quay at Alexandria
III. Demetrios
IV. The Passer-by
V. The Mirror, the Comb, and the Necklace
VI. The Virgins
VII. Chrysis’s Hair

BOOK II
I. The Garden of the Goddess
II. Melitta
III. Love and Death
IV. Moonlight
V. The Invitation
VI. Chrysis’s Rose
VII. The Tale of the Enchanted Lyre

BOOK III
I. The Arrival
II. The Dinner
III. Rhacotis
IV. The Orgie at Bacchis’s
V. The Crucified One
VI. Enthusiasm
VII. Cleopatra

BOOK IV
I. Demetrios Dreams a Dream
II. The Panic
III. The Crowd
IV. The Response
V. The Garden of Hermanubis
VI. The Walls Of Purple

BOOK V
I. The Supreme Night
II. Dust Returns to Earth
III. Chrysis Immortal
IV. Pity
V. Piety