From: Mary Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 09:42:12 EDT
Here's a great starting place: Jeffrey Henderson, _The Maculate Muse:
Obscenity in Aristophanic Comedy_--second edition in 1991.
Mary Pendergaft
Bart Ehrman wrote:
>
> I'm interested in finding Greek terms involving sex and sexual
> activities, terms that would have been vulgar or crude (the phi-words in
> Greek :-)) but that were given euphemistic renderings by Liddell and Scott
> (or other 19th century lexicographers). This is a sudden and urgent
> interest (since I suddenly realized that it might relate to a conference
> paper I'm writing, and it needs to be written in the next few days...);
> but since almost all of my work is in NT and other early Jewish and
> Christian texts, I must confess not to have a slew of such beasts at my
> ready disposal.
>
> Any words come to mind?
>
> -- Bart Ehrman
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
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