Add this copy of The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in to cart. $30.00, good condition, Sold by Row by Row Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sugar Grove, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Yale University Press.
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Good. No Dust Jacket. An ex-library copy in purple cloth lettered in silver, a bit sun-faded at the spine and edges. The usual ex-libris markings, sound binding, clean/unmarked within. No dust jacket.
Add this copy of The Garden of Priapus Sexuality and Aggression in Roman to cart. $53.00, very good condition, Sold by Ancient World Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1983 by Yale University Press.
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Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 0300029020. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Minor spotting to boards. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has a few scratches, chipping.; 296 pages; 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.