Introduction: Toward a History of Sexuality

Feminist Work Within Classics

Philology, the New Historicism, and the Foucauldian Theory of Sexuality in Antiquity

Through the garden and back

Roman Concepts of Obscenity

Apologiae

Decorum in Prose

"Four-Letter Words"

Staining

The Erotic Ideal in Latin Literature and Contemporary Greek Epigram.

Pueri

Mistresses

The Content and Workings of Roman Sexual Humor

Descriptive Analysis: The Priapic Model

The Genres of Roman Sexual Humor

The Subjects of Roman Satire

Other Models for Satire: Judgmental Analysis

Graffiti, Gossip, Lampoons, and Rhetorical Invective

Graffiti

Gossip

Lampoons

Rhetorical Invective

Literature Based on Invective: Invective against Old Women, Priapic Poetry, and Epigram

Invective against Old Women

Priapic Poetry

Epigram

Appendix: The Date and Authorship of the Carmina Priapea

Catullus, Ovid, and the Art of Mockery

Catullus

Ovid

Sexual Satire

Lucilius

Horace

Persius

Petronius

Juvenal

Conclusion

Appendix 1. The Evidence on the Circumstances Surrounding Adultery at Rome

Appendix 2. The Circumstances of Male Homosexuality in Roman Society of the Late Republic and Early Empire

Invective

Erotic Poetry

Some Real-Life Evidence.