Roman Conquests

by Phil Andros

In the sensual ambiance of Golden Rome, Andros begins his adventures with a romantic encounter on Keats' deathbed, and two weeks later ends with a symbolic joining at the poet's grave. Almost every day he has a new erotic encounter with: a bersagliere at the RR terminus, a carabiniere in black boots, a sweating hirsute plasterer found on a scaffold, a marchetta adventurer, a street gamin with the form of an Adonis, a sexton with a feeling for ritual, a sailor who gives him a surprise at the Colosseum, and a metropolitano who takes him in tow,

Genres: Fiction

154 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

pseudonym for Samuel M. Steward

Samuel Morris Steward, also known as Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, and many other pseudonyms, was a poet, novelist, and university professor who left the world of academia to became a tattoo artist and pornographer.

Throughout his life he kept extensive secret diaries, journals and statistics of his sex life. He lived most of his adult life in Chicago, where he tattooed sailor-trainees from the US Navy’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station (as well as gang members and street people) out of a tattoo parlor on South State Street. He later moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he spent the late 1960s as the official tattoo artist of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

For what it is — exceptionally well written, shot through with flourishes of beautiful prose and poetic leanings.

The sex is good, better than in the previous I’ve read of his.