Paralysin cave : : impotence, perception, and text in the Satyrica of Petronius / / by John M. McMahon.

This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from bot...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 176
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1998.
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Latin
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 176.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 272 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
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