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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067525
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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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: Richard Payne Knight
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Category : Isernia (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Amy Richlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198023332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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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: Lee Alexander Stone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phallicism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Giancarlo Carabelli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this book tells the story of the great toes, phallic atefacts collected from Isernia, a remote town in southern Italy, and brought to London by Sir William Hamilton in 1784.
Author: Unknown
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465580646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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![A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients ... To which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe. [With Plates.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/VhTQXyE4PF8C?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Richard Payne Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phallicism
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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![Lo disputo de Baccus et de Priapus [in verse]; ... noubélomen publiado per J.-B. L. [i.e. J. B. Lascoux.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/sxSmkz2dpOAC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Abbé Pierre ROUSSET
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Glenway Wescott
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299296938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes a date with a young artist in Maine. Lavishly rendered in Wescott's elegant prose, the tale is explicit where it needs to be, but—as is typical of Wescott—it is filled with descriptive beauty and introspective lessons about sex and sexuality, love and creativity. Previously published in anthology form in the United Kingdom, "A Visit to Priapus" is presented for the first time in book form in America, containing previously uncollected stories, including three never before published. The result is a candid portrayal of the gifted but enigmatic writer who was famous in youth and remained a perceptive and compassionate voice throughout his long life. Drawn together from midcentury literary journals and magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as from Wescott's papers, the stories were inspired by his life, from childhood to old age, from Wisconsin farm country to New York, London, Germany, and Paris. Finalist, Gay General Fiction, Lambda Literary Awards
Author: Lee Alexander Stone
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ISBN:
Category : Phallicism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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