The Altar of Venus
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Publisher | : Olympia Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Erotic literature, English |
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Publisher | : Olympia Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Erotic literature, English |
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Publisher | : Blue Moon Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781562012953 |
Introduced to desire's delights at a young age, a gentleman of wealth and pleasure commits himself to a lifelong sensual expedition. He progresses from schoolgirls' charms to older women's enticements, especially those of the mothers and wives of acquaintances. Later, moving beyond London brothels to sophisticated exploits found only in Paris, he truly becomes a lord among libertines.
Author | : Yoel Natan |
Publisher | : Yoel Natan |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1439297177 |
This is volume two of a two-volume study of a war and moon god religion that was based on the Mideast moon god religion of Sin.
Author | : Bernard de Montfaucon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1725 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : David Konstan |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Latin drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : 9780801493980 |
This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.
Author | : Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1919 |
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Author | : Alison Sharrock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139482645 |
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.