The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor Book

	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
Ch. 1	Roman Concepts of Obscenity	1
	Apologiae	2
	Decorum in Prose	13
	"Four-Letter Words"	18
	Staining	26
Ch. 2	The Erotic Ideal in Latin Literature and Contemporary Greek Epigram	32
	Pueri	34
	Mistresses	44
Ch. 3	The Content and Workings of Roman Sexual Humor	57
	Descriptive Analysis: The Priapic Model	57
	The Genres of Roman Sexual Humor	64
	The Subjects of Roman Satire	65
	Other Models for Satire: Judgmental Analysis	70
Ch. 4	Graffiti, Gossip, Lampoons, and Rhetorical Invective	81
	Graffiti	81
	Gossip	83
	Lampoons	86
	Rhetorical Invective	96
Ch. 5	Literature Based on Invective: Invective against Old Women, Priapic Poetry, and Epigram	105
	Invective against Old Women	109
	Priapic Poetry	116
	Epigram	127
	Appendix: The Date and Authorship of the Carmina Priapea	141
Ch. 6	Catullus, Ovid, and the Art of Mockery	144
	Catullus	144
	Ovid	156
Ch. 7	Sexual Satire	164
	Lucilius	164
	Horace	174
	Persius	185
	Petronius	190
	Juvenal	195
	Conclusion	210
	Appendix 1. The Evidence on the Circumstances Surrounding Adultery at Rome	215
	Appendix 2. The Circumstances of Male Homosexuality in Roman Society of the Late Republic and Early Empire	220
	Invective	220
	Erotic Poetry	222
	Some Real-Life Evidence	223
	Ideals	225
	Notes	227
	Bibliography	261
	Addenda and Corrigenda	273
	Additional Bibliography	292
	Index of Passages Cited	295
	Index Verborum	307
	General Index	311