1985
DOI: 10.2307/4349781
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The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor

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“…While archaeologically elusive, such emotions are part of the human condition and must have played out in various aspects of material culture. The link between phallic representations and/or sexual imagery with humour is well attested in the Roman world; indeed the inducement of laughter was partly what empowered the phallus to counter the evil eye (Richlin 1992;Clarke 2001;Pearce 2020). Another parallel is found in the 'grotesque' figure from a third century AD well in the extramural settlement of Rainau-Buch, Germany, where a wooden phallus made use of a cylindrical socket for insertion into the carved wooden figure (Greiner 2008: 214-215).…”
Section: Projecting Componentmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…While archaeologically elusive, such emotions are part of the human condition and must have played out in various aspects of material culture. The link between phallic representations and/or sexual imagery with humour is well attested in the Roman world; indeed the inducement of laughter was partly what empowered the phallus to counter the evil eye (Richlin 1992;Clarke 2001;Pearce 2020). Another parallel is found in the 'grotesque' figure from a third century AD well in the extramural settlement of Rainau-Buch, Germany, where a wooden phallus made use of a cylindrical socket for insertion into the carved wooden figure (Greiner 2008: 214-215).…”
Section: Projecting Componentmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Embora as obras The Garden of Priapus, de Richlin, e Sex or Symbol?, de Johns, lidem com o falo e suas conotações apotropaicas, nenhuma delas dão atenção aos aspectos materiais como as inscrições nas paredes. Richlin (1983) e Johns (1982), entre outros, contribuíram muito para nossa compreensão em geral do simbolismo fálico, particularmente como é representado em evidências de elite, como textos literários e pinturas. Mesmo que os escritos das pessoas comuns não se oponham necessariamente às expressões escritas da elite, pois ambos se referem a uma mesma sociedade e cultura, não deixa de ser razoável enfatizar a diversidade de visões de mundo espalhadas pelos muros de Pompeia.…”
Section: Inscrições Apotropaicas De Pompeia: Um Estudo De Casounclassified
“…63 They were blamed for sexual overactivity, for a lasciviousness that became embedded in their anatomy, and for a desire that long outstripped their desirability to men. 64 "Lydia is as roomy as the arse of a bronze horseman" is the first of ten such similes in an epigram of Martial, composed toward the end of the first century AD, the last being her anatomical alignment with the "ugly throat of a pelican from Ravenna." 65 The poem closes with the couplet: "I am said to have fucked her in a fishpond.…”
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confidence: 99%