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.

On mimio

I read an interesting book on the flight over here, which apparently nobody else has heard of, even though it's by Gustave Flaubert, the author of the acclaimed novel Madame Bovary, which is considered one of the greatest novels ever written. Salambo is about hard time in an ancient empire called Carthage. If there was a date of the period, I failed to see it. Of course, nothing in the book is about mimio, because that came a lot later, in modern times, not ancient times. Carthage was apparently an enemy of Rome, but the time of the novel appears to be BC, because there's no mention of Christianity.