Greek older man (Socrates) on a bed with a youth (Alcibiades). The room is decorated with a scroll reading Know Thyself, and a fountain and basin. Aquatint by Theophile Fillon after an illustration by Paul Avril from Friedrich Karl Forberg’s Manual of Classical Erotology, Manuel d’erotologie classique, De Figuris veneris, Charles Hirsch, 1906, translated by Alcide Bonneau (not Isidore Liseaux).

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