| Description |
356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN |
9780472119646 hardcover : alkaline paper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Greece: The anasyrma: Baubo, Medusa, and the gendering of obscenity / Ann Suter -- Toward iambic obscenity / Kirk Ormand -- Aischrology in old comedy and the question of "ritual obscenity" / Ralph M. Rosen -- Ou kata nomon: obscene acts and objects in Herodotos' Histories / Donald Lateiner -- Risk and reward: obscenity in the law courts at Athens / Jess Miner -- Rome: Triumphal ambivalence: the obscene songs / Frances Hickson Hahn -- Obscenity and performance on the Plautine stage / Seth A. Jeppesen -- Weighing in: the Priapus painting at the House of the Vettii, Pompeii / Barbara Kellum -- Bodily waste and boundaries in Pompeian graffiti / Sarah Levin-Richardson -- Dicere latine: the art of speaking crudely in the Carmina Priapea / Elizabeth Young -- Ancient obscenities and modern perceptions -- The most obscene satires: a queer/camp approach to Juvenal 2, 6, and 9 / Michael Broder -- Translating the forbidden: the unexpurgated edition and the reception of ancient obscenity / Deborah Roberts. |
| Library Class |
Classics D3
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| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek language -- Obscene words.
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Latin language -- Obscene words.
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Scatology in art.
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Scatology in literature.
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Art, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
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| Other Author |
Dutsch, Dorota, editor.
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Suter, Ann, 1938- editor.
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