Is Arabian Nights the first book to have an entire story based

>>9230753
We do have evidence of a non-extant tract from a psuedo-Homeric author of the 6th century in Greece noting how an "ashen" slave had sodomized his son and wife in Eudemus' History of Geography.

>>9230753
Herodotus wrote about BBC as well, he wrote that Ethiopians are the most beautiful men in the world.

>>9230784
He also wrote that the Ethiopians have black-colored sperm

>>9230791
And that there were flying snakes in Arabia

And ants the size of dogs in India

>>9230784
It might have something to do with the fact personal hygiene wasn't big 2000 years ago. Handsome fellas in Rome would've had blemishes all over their skin and would have the disposition of someone in the developing world today, while Ethiopians by contrast would seem to have much more cleaner skin due to camoflaging

>>9230791
...Do they?

>>9230798
I believe in all of this.

>>9230753
How can white men even compete?

>>9230814
>It might have something to do with the fact personal hygiene wasn't big 2000 years ago.
depends. medicine wasn't advanced, but hygiene has always been a thing, except england, because they were retards and thought that cold water killed people. Considering the shit they poured into the Thames, I guess it makes sense.

But everywhere else, there's a long heritage of hygiene, which is why bathhouses existed.