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Folio Society (2008), Leather Bound. Edited and introduced by Lawrence Norfolk. Illustrated by Grahame Baker. Quarter-bound in leather with cloth sides blocked and printed with a design by Grahame Baker. Coloured top edge. Set in Ehrhardt with Herculaneum display. Approx. 352 pages; 14 full-page colour illustrations. 11" × 7½".
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Lawrence Norfolk has selected all the most iconic stories, drawing on Plutarch, Virgil, Livy and Ovid amongst others, but also lesser-known traditions, including some of the more bizarre Roman superstitions, such as the Lupercalia in which youths dressed in animal skins and smeared with dog blood would whip female onlookers with strips of goatskin to promote fertility.