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Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century

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Author

Warren S. Smith, editor

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472026296

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science

Rating

3 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-25