Sexy words

Daniel Riaño danielrr at retemail.es
Wed Oct 18 10:26:03 EDT 2000


>At 08:02 -0400 18/10/00, 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).
...
>
>     Any words come to mind?

Better than giving you the first words "involving sex and sexual 
activities" that come to our minds (something which could turn 
dangerous in inappropriate post-Freudian hands), you can consult the 
treatise on insults (II p.C.n) "de blasphemiis" by Suetonius (ed. 
Taillardat, J., París [Collection des Universités de France. Publiée 
sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé] 1967) or Jeffrey 
Henderson's book (1975). "The Maculate Muse." New Haven and London, 
Yale University Press.
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Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Madrid, España



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