«Eaters of Flesh, Drinkers of Milk» : The Ancient Mediterranean Ideology of the Pastoral Nomad*

«… the Menace is loose again, the Hell’s Angels, the hundred carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the centre stripe, missing by inches … like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter’s leg with no quarter asked and none given … » 1