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Introduction | |
Toward a History of Sexuality | |
Feminist Work Within Classics | |
Philology, the New Historicism, and the Foucauldian Theory of Sexuality in Antiquity | |
Through the Garden and Back | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Roman Concepts of Obscenity | p. 1 |
Apologiae | p. 2 |
Decorum in Prose | p. 13 |
"Four-Letter Words" | p. 18 |
Staining | p. 26 |
The Erotic Ideal in Latin Literature and Contemporary Greek Epigram | p. 32 |
Pueri | p. 34 |
Mistresses | p. 44 |
The Content and Workings of Roman Sexual Humor | p. 57 |
Descriptive Analysis: The Priapic Model | p. 57 |
The Genres of Roman Sexual Humor | p. 64 |
The Subjects of Roman Satire | p. 65 |
Other Models for Satire: Judgmental Analysis | p. 70 |
Graffiti, Gossip, Lampoons, and Rhetorical Invective | p. 81 |
Graffiti | p. 81 |
Gossip | p. 83 |
Lampoons | p. 86 |
Rhetorical Invective | p. 96 |
Literature Based on Invective: Invective against Old Women, Priapic Poetry, and Epigram | p. 105 |
Invective against Old Women | p. 109 |
Priapic Poetry | p. 116 |
Epigram | p. 127 |
Appendix: The Date and Authorship of the Carmina Priapea | p. 141 |
Catullus, Ovid, and the Art of Mockery | p. 144 |
Catullus | p. 144 |
Ovid | p. 156 |
Sexual Satire | p. 164 |
Lucilius | p. 164 |
Horace | p. 174 |
Persius | p. 185 |
Petronius | p. 190 |
Juvenal | p. 195 |
Conclusion | p. 210 |
Appendix 1. The Evidence on the Circumstances Surrounding Adultery at Rome | p. 215 |
Appendix 2. The Circumstances of Male Homosexuality in Roman Society of the Late Republic and Early Empire | p. 220 |
Invective | p. 220 |
Erotic Poetry | p. 222 |
Some Real-Life Evidence | p. 223 |
Ideals | p. 225 |
Notes | p. 227 |
Bibliography | p. 261 |
Addenda and Corrigenda | p. 273 |
Additional Bibliography | p. 292 |
Index of Passages Cited | p. 295 |
Index Verborum | p. 307 |
General Index | p. 311 |
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