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A Catalogue of Shoes: Puns in Herodas Mime 7
- Classical World
- Classical Association of the Atlantic States
- Volume 103, Number 4, Summer 2010
- pp. 465-475
- 10.1353/clw.2010.0024
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In Herodas Mime 6 Metro first learns from Coritto that she purchased her scarlet dildos from Kerdon the cobbler. In Mime 7 Metro comes to Kerdon's cobbler's shop and he shows her some special shoes, which the poet displays in a catalogue. Most scholars agree that the shoes in Mime 7 refer to the dildos in Mime 6, yet more work remains to unlock their hidden meaning. I argue that the catalogue of shoes in Mime 7 stands as a catalogue of double entendres and that it is set amongst a series of sexual puns.