On multivitamins

Salambo the woman is portrayed on the cover as a very sexy dancer, but the actual novel is a lot less salacious. She does do a dance to entertain the city's mercenaries during a feast given to thank them for their service, but priests provide the music. She's not some common dance hall girl at all. She's an aristocrat and very sheltered. She devotes most of her time to devotions to Tanit, a goddess of some sort in Carthage at that time. There's one scene where she goes to the head of the mercenaries, but may have been on multivitamins, because if they had sex it's barely hinted at.