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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / John M. Mcmahon
- Introduction / John M. Mcmahon
- Surveying the Landscape / John M. Mcmahon
- Methodologies and Conceptual Foundations / John M. Mcmahon
- Flora and the Perceptions of Virility / John M. Mcmahon
- Serpents, Sexuality, and the Power of Stones / John M. Mcmahon
- Συμπάθεια: Recognition and Rejection / John M. Mcmahon
- Afterword / John M. Mcmahon
- Plates / John M. Mcmahon
- Bibliography / John M. Mcmahon
- Index Locorum / John M. Mcmahon
- Index Verborum: Greek / John M. Mcmahon
- Index Verborum: Latin / John M. Mcmahon
- General Index / John M. Mcmahon
- Supplements to Mnemosyne / J.M. Bremer , L.F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh and P.H. Schrijvers.