Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction - Dorota Dutsch and Ann Suter
Part 1. Greece
Chapter 2. The Anasyrma: Baubo, Medusa, and the Gendering of Obscenity - Ann Suter
Chapter 3. Toward Iambic Obscenity - Kirk Ormand
Chapter 4. Aischrology in Old Comedy and the Question of “Ritual Obscenity” - Ralph M. Rosen
Chapter 5. Ou kata Nomon: Obscene Acts and Objects in Herodotos’ Histories - Donald Lateiner
Chapter 6. Risk and Reward: Obscenity in the Law Courts at Athens - Jess Miner
Part 2. Rome
Chapter 7. Triumphal Ambivalence: The Obscene Songs - Frances Hickson Hahn
Chapter 8. Obscenity and Performance on the Plautine Stage - Seth A. Jeppesen
Chapter 9. Weighing In: The Priapus Painting at the House of the Vettii, Pompeii - Barbara Kellum
Chapter 10. Bodily Waste and Boundaries in Pompeian Graffiti - Sarah Levin-Richardson
Chapter 11. Dicere Latine: The Art of Speaking Crudely in the Carmina Priapea - Elizabeth Young
Part 3. Ancient Obscenities and Modern Perceptions
Chapter 12. The Most Obscene Satires: A Queer/Camp Approach to Juvenal 2, 6, and 9 - Michael Broder
Chapter 13. Translating the Forbidden: The Unexpurgated Edition and the Reception of Ancient Obscenity - Deborah Roberts
Contributors
Index