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1	Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome more books like this by Amy Richlin (Editor) This collection of essays represents one of the very few large-scale applications of feminist theory to Greco-Roman antiquity. It is unusual in that texts and works of art are considered jointly. The essays consider Greek tragedy and major figures such as Aristophanes, the Roman historian Livy and the poet Ovid from a feminist perspective; they ... see all copies from $17.99! new only from $37.44! \| SVS
2	Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus more books like this by Titus Maccius Plautus, Amy Richlin (Translator) Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $12.15! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality & Aggression in Roman Humor more books like this by Amy Richlin Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. Amy Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defence of a bounded area serves as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal. Using literary, anthropological, psychological, and ... see all copies from $24.05! new only from $41.39! \| SVS
4	Feminist Theory and the Classics more books like this by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Editor), Amy Richlin (Editor) This text aims to provide a broad introduction to issues in feminist theory for classicists, and at the same time, to provide feminists with an introduction to feminist work on antiquity. The interdisciplinary approach of this collection, interweaving aspects of feminist theory with material culture studies, feminist archaeology, and anthropology, ... see all copies from $8.91!
5	Marcus Aurelius in Love more books like this by Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Amy Richlin (Translator) In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered--the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama of Cicero's. That the collection ... see all copies from $25.90! new only from $25.90!

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