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Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780252067525 |
Download The Priapus Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Amy Richlin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1992-08-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198023332 |
Download The Garden of Priapus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : American Philological Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Classical philology |
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Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
Author | : Marc Föcking |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2023-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110783479 |
Download A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘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.
Author | : Loomis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327339 |
Download Studies in Catullan Verse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Edward Kennard Rand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Appendix Vergiliana |
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Author | : Harvard University |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Classical philology |
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Author | : S. J. Harrison |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191615900 |
Download Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.
Author | : Edward Kennard Rand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
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Download Essays and Reviews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : K. Sara Myers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197773206 |
Download Ancient Roman Literary Gardens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Beginning with Cicero and Varro and ending with Statius and Pliny the Younger, this chapter offers a chronological investigation of the ways in which real and literary gardens developed from the first century BCE to the first century CE as a means of elite masculine self-representation and the reactions of elite Roman men to the increased social and cultural power of villa and horti estates and their grounds. Gardens served as powerful symbols of wealth and as creative displays of the cultural aspirations of their owners in ways that challenged traditional definitions of gardens and of Roman manliness. Since these large-scale 'gardens' are primarily associated with leisure (otium), authors are concerned with describing and justifying their activities in these sites as befitting Roman masculine ideals. We can trace a change in attitude towards leisure and the private display of wealth, and consequently gardens, largely attributed to changes in the socio-political circumstances of the Roman elite, in the works of Statius and his contemporary Pliny the Younger, who use laudatory descriptions of extensive villas and grounds as a means of expressing social and literary power"--