The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor

by Amy Richlin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068734
• ISBN13: 9780195068733
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"