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Ancient Obscenities - Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (Hardcover)
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Ancient Obscenities - Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (Hardcover)
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Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of
explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual
functions, taking as its point of departure the modern
preoccupation with the obscene. The essays in this volume offer new
interpretations of materials that have been perceived by
generations of modern readers as "obscene": the explicit sexual
references of Greek iambic poetry and Juvenal's satires,
Aristophanic aischrologia, Priapic poetics, and the scatology of
Pompeian graffiti. Other essays venture in an even more provocative
fashion into texts that are not immediately associated with the
obscene: the Orphic Hymn to Demeter, Herodotus, the supposedly prim
scripts of Plautus and the Attic orators. The volume focuses on
texts but also includes a chapter devoted to visual representation,
and many essays combine evidence from texts and material culture.
Of all these texts, artifacts, and practices we ask the same
questions: What kinds of cultural and emotional work do sexual and
scatological references perform? Can we find a blueprintfor the
ancient usage of this material? Additional contributors include
Michael Broder, Frances Hickson Hahn, Seth Jeppesen, Barbara
Kellum, Donald Lateiner, Sarah Levin-Richardson, Jess Miner, Kirk
Ormand, Deborah H. Roberts, Ralph M. Rosen, and Elizabeth Young.
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