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Scholarly and thought provoking.,
This review is from: The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (Paperback)
Excellent book which manages to chart the ... and (related) invectives, poetry and jokes of the late-republic/early Roman Empire. In contrast to the arid writing style of the New Historians on the classics, this is a breath of fresh air. She also provides good counter arguments to the ideas of Foucault and neo-Foucaultians, although not without problems; for example, she thinks the 'cinaedi', a term of insult roughly translated to today's 'queer', denoted a group of 'passive homosexuals', which she thinks was a (sub)cultural group in the Roman empire (there may well have been ... sub-cultures, but her idea is too reductive). Still, highly enjoyable, scholarly and recommended.
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The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor by Amy Richlin (Paperback - August 20, 1992)
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