Author: Richmond Frederick ThomasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Priapea and Ovid
Author: Richmond Frederick ThomasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Review of The Priapea and Ovid
Author: Robert Benson SteeleA Review of "The Priapea and Ovid: a Study of the Poems"
Author: Robert Benson SteeleA Review of "The Priapea and Ovid
Author: R. B. SteeleThe Garden of Priapus
Author: Amy RichlinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198023332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Priapea
Author: W H ParkerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040017509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus Priapeorum, which displays remarkable skill, artistry and wit. Their elegance of style contrasts strikingly with their indecent subject matter. The poems are mostly spoken by, or addressed to, the lewd god Priapus, famous for the size and tenseness of his erect membrum virile or phallus. A main theme is the threatened use of his formidable organ to assault obscenely any intruders that he may catch thieving, but requests and offsprings made to Priapus, and his comparison of himself with other deities, also figure prominently among the poems. This book will be of interest of literature, classical studies, and translation studies.
Selections from the poems of Ovid
Author: OvidThe Priapus Poems
Author: Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067525
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Unmistakable by virtue of his exaggerated phallus, Priapus--one of Rome's minor fertility gods--inspired a host of epigrammatic poems that offer one of the best primary sources for the study of ancient sexuality. Despite their apparent frivolity, the Priapus poems raise basic questions of class and gender, censorship, and the nature of obscenity. The god's self-conscious indecency placed him squarely in the realm of comedy, but his role as guardian of fertility also gave him a deep religious significance. Richard Hooper's introduction explores this important duality and places the poems in their historical context. Essentially graffiti clothed in the refined forms of classical poetry, The Priapus Poems offers the reader "a trip to Coney Island in a Rolls Royce." Hooper's lively translation makes these playful poems available for the first time to the nonspecialist in an appealing, elegant, and readable version. This edition includes the original Latin texts as well as a commentary on classical references and textual problems.
Author: Ovid
Author: Ovid