From better then worse and apparently now forever, it is here I stage one final stoned, unclothed repose; replete with my curly-locked head hinged fecklessly back and my Alban Hills goat-herder thighs splayed a ram’s-length wide for all eternity to ogle my goatmanhood.

—Gabien of Latium, 232 BCE

The “Barberini Faun” is on permanent display in the Glypothek Museum in Munich, Germany
and serves as the inspiration for this historical novel.