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384 pages • first pub 2008 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780676976649
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant chan...
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384 pages • first pub 2008 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780676976649
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Publication date: Not specified
Description
For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant chan...