{"id":74,"date":"2005-08-20T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:39:42","slug":"marvels-yet-again-long-lost-fountain-of-viagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2005\/08\/marvels-yet-again-long-lost-fountain-of-viagra\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Marvels&#8221; yet again: Long-lost fountain of viagra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apollonios (second century BCE) mentioned in the previous post cites the work of an &#8220;historian&#8221; who reports the following &#8220;marvel&#8221; (avert your eyes, if you prefer, since it&#8217;s a little racy):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Phylarchos says in the eighth book of his historical treatise that in the Arabian Gulf there is a spring of water and if a man rubs his feet with it his genitals immediately become extremely erect. Some persons&#8217; genitals do not contract again at all, whereas others&#8217; do return to normal size but only after great suffering and treatment (Hansen, p. 6).<\/p>\n<p>History can get a little &#8220;racy&#8221; at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apollonios (second century BCE) mentioned in the previous post cites the work of an &#8220;historian&#8221; who reports the following &#8220;marvel&#8221; (avert your eyes, if you prefer, since it&#8217;s a little racy): Phylarchos says in the eighth book of his historical treatise that in the Arabian Gulf there is a spring of water and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnography-paradoxography","category-religions-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-blog-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13631,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/13631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}