The Priapus Poems
Title | The Priapus Poems PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780252067525 |
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.
The Garden of Priapus
Title | The Garden of Priapus PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Richlin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1992-08-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198023332 |
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.
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Title | Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association PDF eBook |
Author | American Philological Association |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Classical philology |
ISBN |
Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
Title | A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Föcking |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2023-03-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110783479 |
‘Anticlassicisms,’ as a plural, react to the many possible forms of ‘classicisms.’ In the sixteenth century, classicist tendencies range from humanist traditions focusing on Horace and the teachings of rhetoric, via Pietro Bembo’s canonization of a ‘second antiquity’ in the works of the fourteenth-century classics, Petrarch and Boccaccio, to the Aristotelianism of the second half of the century. Correspondingly, the various tendencies to destabilize or to subvert or contradict these manifold and historically dynamic ‘classicisms’ need to be distinguished as so many ‘anticlassicisms’. This volume, after discussing the history and possible implications of the label ‘anticlassicism’ in Renaissance studies, differentiates and analyzes these ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various forms of opposition to ‘classicisms’ as to their scope (on a scale between radical poetological dissension to merely sectorial opposition in a given literary genre) and to their alternative models, be they authors (like Dante) or texts. At the same time, the various chapters specify the degree of difference or erosion inherent in anticlassicist tendencies with respect to their ‘classicist’ counterparts, ranging from implicit ‘system disturbances’ to open, intended antagonism (as in Bernesque poetry), with a view to establishing an overall picture of this field of phenomena for the first time.
Studies in Catullan Verse
Title | Studies in Catullan Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Loomis |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2018-11-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004327339 |
Chronicles the French revolution, from the gathering of the Estates-General, after one-hundred-twenty-five years of silence, to disunity within the Committee of Public Safety, The fall of Robespierre, and the end of the Reign of Terror.
Young Virgil's Poetry
Title | Young Virgil's Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Kennard Rand |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Appendix Vergiliana |
ISBN |
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
Title | Harvard Studies in Classical Philology PDF eBook |
Author | Harvard University |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Classical philology |
ISBN |