The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor

"This is fantastic for overturning our conception that the ancient Romans were all universally bisexual. It looks at the evidence that would actually suggest that the material we’ve interpreted as suggesting the Romans are bisexual is actually about domination and power, and displays of domination and power. It goes into detail, for example, on the graffiti in Pompeii where there are these profanities written about performing various sex acts on other men. If you want something that’s going to shake up a little bit how we’ve traditionally thought about the ancient world, this is a brilliant book by a very brilliant scholar."