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Ancient Obscenities Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds

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Autore/i	Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter
Editore	University of Michigan Press	Luogo	Michigan
Anno	2015	Pagine	366
Dimensioni	16x23 (cm)	Illustrazioni	ill. a colori e b/n n.t. - colour and b/w ills
Legatura	cart. edit. ill. colori - harcover	Conservazione	Nuovo - New
Lingua	Inglese - English Text	Peso	1200 (gr)
ISBN	0472119648	EAN-13	9780472119646

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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?

Dorota Dutsch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ann Suter is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode Island.