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

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

Dorota Dutsch and Ann Suter editors

University of Michigan Press, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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内容説明

Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual functions, taking as its point of departure the modern preoccupation with the obscene. The essays in this volume offer new interpretations of materials that have been perceived by generations of modern readers as "obscene": the explicit sexual references of Greek iambic poetry and Juvenal's satires, Aristophanic aischrologia, Priapic poetics, and the scatology of Pompeian graffiti. Other essays venture in an even more provocative fashion into texts that are not immediately associated with the obscene: the Orphic Hymn to Demeter, Herodotus, the supposedly prim scripts of Plautus and the Attic orators. The volume focuses on texts but also includes a chapter devoted to visual representation, and many essays combine evidence from texts and material culture. Of all these texts, artifacts, and practices we ask the same questions: What kinds of cultural and emotional work do sexual and scatological references perform? Can we find a blueprintfor the ancient usage of this material? Additional contributors include Michael Broder, Frances Hickson Hahn, Seth Jeppesen, Barbara Kellum, Donald Lateiner, Sarah Levin-Richardson, Jess Miner, Kirk Ormand, Deborah H. Roberts, Ralph M. Rosen, and Elizabeth Young.

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