November 26, 1999
'Ancient Greek Love Magic'
Gaze across millennia to ancient Greece. Imagine yourself a young man in Athens. A beauty has caught your eye. Do you whisper the classical equivalent of sweet nothings? Or might your entreaties, delivered from afar, sound more like this: "Drag Heronous by her hair and by her guts to me, Poseidonios, every hour of time, by night and day, until Heronous comes to me, Poseidonios ... Now, now. Quickly, quickly."
It's no surprise that the violent words of this ancient incantation sound
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