References to the body's sexual and excretory functions occupy a peculiarly ambivalent space in Greece and Rome

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

"Medieval Obscenities examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from lat

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

Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overvi