Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: The Whore’s Tomb

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciato (1492 – 1550 CE) features the corpse of the legendary hetaera of ancient Greece Lais of Corinth, who is said to have lived during the Peloponnesian War and to have been the most beautiful woman of the time, charging extraordinary fees for her sexual favors. The subscriptio of the emblem interprets the frieze on her tomb as representative of how she kept her customers captive: separating a man from his fold and clawing his buttocks.

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