The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman HumorOxford University Press, 20 ago 1992 - 352 pagine Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal. Using literary, anthropological, psychological, and feminist methodologies, she suggests that aggressive sexual humor reinforces aggressive behavior on both the individual and societal levels, and that Roman satire provides an insight into Roman culture. Including a substantial and provocative new introduction, this revised edition is important not only as an in-depth study of Roman sexual satire, but also as a commentary on the effects of all humor on society and its victims. |
Sommario
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The Erotic Ideal in Latin Literature and Contemporary | 32 |
The Content and Workings of Roman Sexual Humor | 57 |
Graffiti | 81 |
Rhetorical Invective | 96 |
Invective against Old Women | 105 |
Catullus Ovid and the Art of Mockery | 144 |
Sexual Satire | 164 |
CONCLUSION | 210 |
The Circumstances of Male Homosexuality in Roman Society | 220 |
NOTES | 227 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 261 |
ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA | 273 |
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY | 292 |
INDEX VERBORUM | 307 |
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Pagina 12 - Ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, Qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, Si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici Et quod pruriat incitare possunt, 1o Non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, Qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.
Pagina 4 - Quomodo Maecenas vixerit notius est, quam ut narrari nunc debeat, quomodo ambulaverit, quam delicatus fuerit, quam cupierit videri, quam vitia sua latere noluerit.
Pagina 118 - ... ecce, vigent intempestiva valentque ; nunc opus exposcunt militiamque suam. quin istic pudibunda iaces, pars pessima nostri ? sic sum pollicitis captus et ante tuis. tu dominum fallis. per te deprensus inermis tristia cum magno damna pudore tuli. hanc etiam non est mea dedignata puella molliter admota sollicitare manu. sed postquam nullas consurgere posse per artes immemoremque sui procubuisse videt, 'quid me ludis?
Pagina 6 - Lascivam verborum veritatem, id est epigrammaton linguam, excusarem, si meum esset exemplum: sic scribit Catullus, sic Marsus, sic Pedo, sic Gaetulicus, sic quicumque perlegitur.
Pagina 5 - Quid me constricta spectatis fronte Catones damnatisque novae simplicitatis opus? Sermonis puri non tristis gratia ridet, quodque facit populus, Candida lingua refert. Nam quis concubitus, Veneris quis gaudia nescit? Quis vetat in tepido membra calere toro? Ipse pater veri doctos Epicurus amare iussit, et hoc vitam dixit habere Te\o<r "... / "Nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius nee ficta severitate ineptius" . . . • Barbazon Meon, iv, p.
Pagina 6 - Spero me secutum in libellis meis tale temperamentum ut de illis queri non possit quisquis de se bene senserit, cum salva infimarum quoque personarum reverentia ludant; quae adeo antiquis auctoribus defuit ut nominibus non tantum veris abusi sint sed et magnis.
Pagina 8 - Nee nos aeriae voce monemur avis, Nee mihi sunt visae Clio Cliusque sorores Servanti pecudes vallibus, Ascra, tuis...
Pagina 119 - Sullae gener, hoc miser uno nomine deceptus, poenas dedit usque superque 65 quam satis est, pugnis caesus ferroque petitus, exclusus fore cum Longarenus foret intus. huic si mutonis verbis mala tanta videnti diceret haec animus : ' quid vis tibi ? numquid ego a te magno prognatum deposco consule cunnum 70 velatumque stola mea cum conferbuit ira?
Pagina 14 - ... regular price for your wickedness, and that not a low one. But very soon Curio stepped in, who carried you off from your public trade, and, as if he had bestowed a matron's robe upon you, settled you in a steady and durable wedlock. No boy bought for the gratification of passion was ever so wholly in the power of his master as you were in Curio's.