Priapus's Two Rapes in Ovid's Fasti

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9308850
AutoresThomas D Frazel (autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen36
Número1
Páginas61-97
Fecha de publicación2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArethusa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0975 • E-ISSN: 1080-6504
EditorialJohns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/are.2003.0003
OpenAlexW1990766460
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas38

This essay considers the dynamics of joking discourse in two passages in Ovid's Fasti (1.391-440; 6.319-348): both are attempted rapes by Priapus and both are offered by the narrator as humorous tales. I explore the social implications of making a woman the Butt of a joke and the object of an attempted rape. That the second woman here is Vesta, one of Augustus' primary religious concerns, necessarily adds a further dimension: now the joke can be read by some Audience members as imagining a world that looks nothing like the one offered by Augustus to his contemporaries

Art · Dynamics (music · Epistemology · Joke · Linguistics · Literature · Nothing · Object (grammar · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy