Cunnos habere duos. Anal penetration as a sexual practice in Martial's Rome
In the following essay we’ll study the epigram XI, 43 of Marcus Valerius Martialis, roman poet from the first century CE, where we’ll find clear references, on a first level, to the sodomization or anal penetration, erotic practice that can be only executed by the dominus (master of the house) and h...
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I10-R300-article-225692019-12-16T20:13:08Z Cunnos habere duos. Anal penetration as a sexual practice in Martial's Rome Cunnos habere duos. La penetración anal como práctica sexual en la Roma de Marcial Mogrovejo, Francisco Toribio anal penetration dominus Martialis penetración anal dominus Marcial In the following essay we’ll study the epigram XI, 43 of Marcus Valerius Martialis, roman poet from the first century CE, where we’ll find clear references, on a first level, to the sodomization or anal penetration, erotic practice that can be only executed by the dominus (master of the house) and his puer (slave), but forbidden to the uxor (wife). We’ll argue how this reading from the sexual world is crossed by a reading from the political, social and cultural world.On a second level, we’ll find elements that belong to the mythical tradition, operating in the epigram as poetic resources with double purpose: create the needed tension that culminates in the fulmen in clausula, that means, the acid core, ironic and loaded with poison, where hides what the poet doesn’t want to say explicitly (Adams, 1975); but also, become subverted exempla, that means, exemplary mythical altered models that assist to legitimize anal penetration as an erotic regularized practice in Rome in first century CE.In this way, we’ll not only recognize in the Martial’s figure a poet that knows, choose and use his mythical-literary tradition with artfulness, but also a roman man that analize, with a critical and, in the words of Cardoso de Oliveira (1996), “disciplined” look, the people and the society that surround him. En el siguiente trabajo analizaremos el epigrama XI, 43 de Marco Valerio Marcial, poeta romano del siglo I d.C., en donde hallaremos claras referencias, en un primer nivel, a la sodomización o penetración anal, práctica erótica reservada para el dominus (señor de la casa) y su puer (esclavo), pero prohibida para la uxor (esposa). De esta manera, nos enfocaremos en cómo dicha lectura del ámbito sexual se ve atravesada por una lectura del ámbito político, social y cultural. En un segundo nivel, encontraremos elementos pertenecientes a la tradición mítica funcionando en el epigrama como recursos poéticos con doble finalidad: la de crear la tensión necesaria que culmina con el fulmen in clausula, es decir, el núcleo ácido, irónico y cargado de veneno, donde se oculta aquello que el poeta no quiere decir explícitamente (Adams, 1975); pero también, la de conformar exempla subvertidos, es decir, modelos ejemplares míticos alterados, que ayudan a legitimar la penetración anal como práctica erótica regularizada en Roma del siglo I d.C. De esta manera, no sólo veremos en la figura de Marcial a un poeta que conoce, selecciona y maneja con destreza la tradición mítico-literaria, sino también a un hombre romano que analiza con mirada crítica y, en palabras de Cardoso de Oliveira (1996), “disciplinada” a las personas y a la sociedad que lo rodean. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2018-12-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/etcetera/article/view/22569 Etcétera. Revista del Área de Ciencias Sociales del CIFFyH; Núm. 3 (2018) 2618-4281 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/etcetera/article/view/22569/22602 |
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In the following essay we’ll study the epigram XI, 43 of Marcus Valerius Martialis, roman poet from the first century CE, where we’ll find clear references, on a first level, to the sodomization or anal penetration, erotic practice that can be only executed by the dominus (master of the house) and his puer (slave), but forbidden to the uxor (wife). We’ll argue how this reading from the sexual world is crossed by a reading from the political, social and cultural world.On a second level, we’ll find elements that belong to the mythical tradition, operating in the epigram as poetic resources with double purpose: create the needed tension that culminates in the fulmen in clausula, that means, the acid core, ironic and loaded with poison, where hides what the poet doesn’t want to say explicitly (Adams, 1975); but also, become subverted exempla, that means, exemplary mythical altered models that assist to legitimize anal penetration as an erotic regularized practice in Rome in first century CE.In this way, we’ll not only recognize in the Martial’s figure a poet that knows, choose and use his mythical-literary tradition with artfulness, but also a roman man that analize, with a critical and, in the words of Cardoso de Oliveira (1996), “disciplined” look, the people and the society that surround him. |
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