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Darrera modificació: 2021-01-08
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Petit, Caroline, "Naming Sexual Perversion: A Note on Galen, Simples X, 1", The Journal of Greco-Roman Studies, 59/3 (2020), 95-106.
- Resum
- This paper is a philological note on a little-known passage from Galen's work On simple drugs, X, 1 (XII, 249 K.) in which Galen uses rare sexual vocabulary to illustrate his point (ingesting human bodily fluids, especially menstrual blood, however useful for health, is disgusting). Swallowing menstrual blood is as repulsive, Galen argues, as practising fellatio (λεσβιάζειν) and, even worse, cunnilingus (φοινικίζειν)-both oral sex practices for which Galen uses polite, literary terms borrowed from the language of ancient comedy and iambic poetry. This paper argues that Galen's use of those terms, which is paralleled in a contemporary work, Lucian's Pseudologistes 28, illuminates the meaning of the few classical (Aristophanic) occurrences of λεσβιάζειν, as well as the semantical difference between λεσβιάζειν and φοινικίζειν.
- Matèries
- Manuscrits
Sexualitat
Filosofia moral - Ètica
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/44847698/Naming_Sexual_Per ...
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