The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor

Oxford University Press USA (1992)
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In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness exhibited by the garden statues of the god Priapus served as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal.

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