literary analysis of Hellenistic epigrams
Common-sense understanding of penis, penetration, and pleasure has a relatively weak literary-figurative position. Thus the fallacious reign of phallus. … Read the post truthful, ancient rule of the phallus: penetration provides pleasure
Ancient Greek epitaphs preserving words of Herais and Sozemene for their husbands show the long history of women’s love for men. … Read the post ancient Greek epitaphs: Herais & Sozomene for their husbands
Roman epitaph from the 2nd century: “To the sacred memory of Julia Galbina; she lived 45 years. Gnaeus Haius Iustus, to his most devoted wife.” … Read the post Roman epitaph to Julia Galbina
In the ancient Greco-Roman world, gods and physicians prompted hope and ridicule from healing inscriptions in Asclepeia to highly literary epigrams. … Read the post gods and physicians in ancient Greek inscriptions and epigrams
The half-eaten man and the fish caught in the net are the whole shipwrecked man, the continually transforming body in an unanchored world. … Read the post the whole shipwrecked man