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Ancient and modern

What the ancients would have made of Virginia Giuffre

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

Virginia Giuffre may well be a heroine among all those abused in their youth. Ancient reactions compare interestingly with ours.

It would have been one thing had she been a high-class courtesan (hetaira), who was her own woman, dealing in ‘gifts’ from ‘friends’ who wanted to ‘benefit’ her, with no going rate of exchange.

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