![]() ![]() Stripped of everything, including their real names, the women all long for a way out of The Wolf Den whether through love, death or a series of calculated gamblesĮach chapter starts with a contemporary quote or piece of graffiti from the walls of Pompeii, a device that sets the scene beautifully as you walk the streets with the girls as they go “fishing,” calling into The Sparrow for hot wine or parading through the painted colonnades in the forum. Dido is from Carthage, Beronice is from Egypt and Victoria was rescued from the town dump as a baby and has known no other life. She was sold first into domestic servitude and then into prostitution. Amara is Greek by birth and the daughter of a doctor. Set in the Lupanar of Pompeii, the town brothel known as The Wolf Den, this is the story of a group of women sold into slavery from across the Roman Empire. ![]() The Wolf Den is the perfect combination of meticulous research and a flair for storytelling that transported me straight to Pompeii in AD74 May I know love’s power, if never its sweetness.” Amara drops her mangled garland on the ever-growing pile of heaped offerings from the desperate whores of Pompeii”Įvery so often you read a book that just makes you want to wiggle your toes with pleasure because it’s just so good. “May men fall to me as this offering falls to you, Greatest Aphrodite. ![]()
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