The Garden Of Priapus PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Garden Of Priapus PDF full book. Access full book title The Garden Of Priapus.
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 | : Alfred Jarry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Garden of Priapus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Payne Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Isernia (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
Download A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : |
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 | : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108327036 |
Download Gardens of the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
Author | : Marcus Aurelius |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2016-02-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022637811X |
Download Marcus Aurelius in Love Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered—the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama of Cicero’s. That the collection included passionate love letters between Fronto and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius was politely ignored—or concealed. And for almost two hundred years these letters have lain hidden in plain sight. Marcus Aurelius in Love rescues these letters from obscurity and returns them to the public eye. The story of Marcus and Fronto began in 139 CE, when Fronto was selected to instruct Marcus in rhetoric. Marcus was eighteen then and by all appearances the pupil and teacher fell in love. Spanning the years in which the relationship flowered and died, these are the only love letters to survive from antiquity—homoerotic or otherwise. With a translation that reproduces the effusive, slangy style of the young prince and the rhetorical flourishes of his master, the letters between Marcus and Fronto will rightfully be reconsidered as key documents in the study of the history of sexuality and classics.
Author | : William Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520924096 |
Download Catullan Provocations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh interpretation of almost all of Catullus's oeuvre. Running through the book is an analysis of the ideological stakes behind the construction of the author Catullus in twentieth-century scholarship and of the agenda governing the interpreter's position in relation to Catullus.
Author | : Susan Schibanoff |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0802090354 |
Download Chaucer's Queer Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.
Author | : Elisabeth B. MacDougall |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780884021001 |
Download Ancient Roman Gardens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jeremy F. Hultin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2008-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 904743367X |
Download The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interpreted by others? A careful examination of the ancient uses of and discourse about foul language illuminates the moral logic implicit in various Jewish and Christian texts (e.g. Sirach, Colossians, Ephesians, the Didache, and the writings of Clement of Alexandria). Although the Christians of the first two centuries were consistently opposed to foul language, they had a variety of reasons for their moral stance, and they held different views about what role speech should play in forming their identity as a "holy people."