Ancient obscenities : their nature and use in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dutsch, Dorota M. (Editor), Suter, Ann, 1938- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Greek literature > History and criticism. Latin literature > History and criticism. Greek language > Obscene words. Latin language > Obscene words. Scatology in art. Scatology in literature. Art, Roman > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)

Table of 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.