Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Rich

Unmistakable by virtue of his exaggerated phallus, Priapus--one of Rome's minor fertility gods--inspired a host of epigrammatic poems that offer one of the best

Chronicles the French revolution, from the gathering of the Estates-General, after one-hundred-twenty-five years of silence, to disunity within the Committee of

A stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.

A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitte