Contents

1 Satiric Advice
SERIOUS OR NOT?
Warren S. Smith

2 “In a Different Guise”
ROMAN EDUCATION AND GREEK RHETORICAL THOUGHT ON MARRIAGE
Richard Hawley

3 Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama
Susanna Morton Braund

4 “The Cold Cares of Venus”
LUCRETIUS AND ANTI-MARRIAGE LITERATURE
Warren S. Smith

5 Marriage and Gender in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poetry
Karla Pollmann

6 Advice on Sex by the Self-Defeating Satirists
HORACE Sermones 1.2, JUVENAL Satire 6, AND ROMAN SATIRIC WRITING
Warren S. Smith

7 Chaste Artemis and Lusty Aphrodite
THE PORTRAIT OF WOMEN AND MARRIAGE IN THE GREEK AND LATIN NOVELS
Regine May

8 Dissuading from Marriage
JEROME AND THE ASCETICIZATION OF SATIRE
Elizabeth A. Clark

9 Change and Continuity in Pagan and Christian (Invective) Thought on Women and Marriage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Barbara Feichtinger

10 Walter as Valerius
CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN IN THE Dissuasio
Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith

11 Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages
P. G. Walsh

12 The Wife of Bath and Dorigen Debate Jerome
Warren S. Smith

Bibliography

Contributors

Index