Priapea

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067525
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Priapus Poems written by and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0198023332
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Priapus written by Amy Richlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association written by American Philological Association and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-

Author : Marc Föcking
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110783479
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento written by Marc Föcking and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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
ISBN 13 : 9004327339
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Catullan Verse written by Loomis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Virgil's Poetry written by Edward Kennard Rand and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harvard University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615900
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace written by S. J. Harrison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays and Reviews written by Edward Kennard Rand and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421351
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Printing Virgil written by Craig Kallendorf and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.