From ginlindzey@austin.rr.com Thu Feb 28 15:43:26 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1SNhLnJ067574 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:43:21 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Feb 28 15:43:21 2002 -0800 Received: from sm11.texas.rr.com (sm11.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.42]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1SNhKZB006859 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:43:20 -0800 Received: from Ginnyhome (cs6625160-42.austin.rr.com [66.25.160.42]) by sm11.texas.rr.com (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g1SNe9KX017562 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:40:13 -0600 From: "Ginny Lindzey" To: Subject: ancient feminine hygiene Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:43:36 -0600 Message-ID: <001901c1c0b1$bd88fb60$6601a8c0@Ginnyhome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 (my apologies if anyone finds this topic uncomfortable) While surfing for info on sea sponges (ok, related to sponges on sticks used in Roman toilets), I found lots of pages devoted to the modern use of sea sponges in place of tampons. Is this what ancient women used? Do we even know? Students ask this type of question and I wouldn't mind knowing the answer myself.... I'm not shy. Anyone know?? ginnyL ======================== Ginny Lindzey, Editor Texas Classical Association Porter Middle School 2206 Prather Lane Austin 78704 TCA: www.txclassics.org NCLG: www.promotelatin.org Lindsey Davis: www.lindseydavis.co.uk .