Download or read book The Priapeia written by Richard Francis Burton and L. C. Smithers and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Priapeia is a collection of ninety-five poems about the phallic god Priapus. It was compiled from literary works and inscriptions on images of the god by an unknown editor, who composed the introductory epigram. In the 19th century, the Priapeia were translated into English by Leonard Smithers and Richard Francis Burton, who provided numerous notes concerning the sexual practices that are referenced in the poems. These explanatory notes address such topics as irrumation, cunnilingus, masturbation, bestiality, sexual positions, eunuchism, phalli, religious prostitution, aphrodisiacs, pornography, and sexual terminology.
Download or read book A General Bibliographical Dictionary written by Friedrich Adolph Ebert and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Bibliographical Dictionary Q Z List of all the Aldine typographical production List of the Juntine typographical productions Elzeviers written by Friedrich Adolf Ebert and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City of Poetry written by David G. Lummus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio) who wrote in both Latin and the Italian vernacular. In readings of defenses of poetry, speeches and letters on public laurel-crowning ceremonies, and other theoretical and poetic texts, this book shows how these poets viewed their authorship of poetic works as a function of their engagement in a human community. Each poet represents a model of the poet as a public intellectual - a poet-theologian - who can intervene in public affairs thanks to his authority within texts. The City of Poetry provides a new historicized approach to understanding poetic culture in fourteenth-century Italy which reshapes long-standing Romantic views of poetry as a timeless and sublimely inspired form of discourse.
Download or read book Cleopatra written by Margaret M. Miles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleopatra—a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could—continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. These wide-ranging essays explore such topics as Cleopatra’s controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of her love potions. They view Cleopatra from the Egyptian perspective, and examine the reception in Rome of Egyptian culture, especially of its religion and architecture. They discuss films about her, and consider what inspired Egyptomania in early modern art. Together, these essays illuminate Cleopatra’s legacy and illustrate how it has been used and reused through the centuries.
Download or read book Beyond Reception written by Patrick Baker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.
Download or read book The Life of Sir Richard Burton written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Auction catalogue books of Guglielmo Libri 28 March to 5 April 1859 written by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (London) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts written by Guillaume Libri and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts formed by Guglielmo Libri written by Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson Londra and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of the Splendid Manuscripts Chiefly Upon Vellum in Various Languages of Europe and the East Formed by M Guglielmo Libri written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts formed by Guglielmo Libri written by Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Libri Library written by Guillaume Libri and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Priapea and Ovid written by Richmond Frederick Thomason and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Priapea written by W H Parker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus Priapeorum, which displays remarkable skill, artistry and wit. Their elegance of style contrasts strikingly with their indecent subject matter. The poems are mostly spoken by, or addressed to, the lewd god Priapus, famous for the size and tenseness of his erect membrum virile or phallus. A main theme is the threatened use of his formidable organ to assault obscenely any intruders that he may catch thieving, but requests and offsprings made to Priapus, and his comparison of himself with other deities, also figure prominently among the poems. This book will be of interest of literature, classical studies, and translation studies.
Download or read book The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr Peter Bayle written by Pierre Bayle and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts Chiefly Upon Vellum Formed by M Guglielmo Libri which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs S Leigh Sotheby John Wilkinson on 28th of March 1859 Etc written by Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri Carrucci Dalla Sommaia (Count.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
