Ancient obscenities : their nature and use in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds / Dorota Dutsch and Ann Suter, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutsch, Dorota, editor.

Suter, Ann, 1938- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Greek language--Obscene words.

Greek language.

Latin language--Obscene words.

Latin language.

Scatology in art.

Scatology in literature.

Art, Roman--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Art, Roman.

Obscene words.

Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472119646

0472119648

OCLC:

910412970