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This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.

Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Sexology --- Petronius Arbiter, Caius Titus --- Satire, Latin --- Masculinity in literature --- Human body in literature --- Impotence in literature --- Men in literature --- Sex in literature --- Satire latine --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Impuissance sexuelle dans la littérature --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Petronius Arbiter. --- Petronius Arbiter --- Rome --- In literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- -Sex in literature --- Latin satire --- Latin wit and humor --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Petron --- Pétrone, T. --- Petronio --- Petronio Arbitro --- Petronio, Caio --- Petronio, Cayo --- Petronius --- Petronius Arbiter, --- Petronius Arbiter, Titus --- Petronius, Gaius --- Petronius, Titus --- In literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Impotence in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Impuissance sexuelle dans la littérature --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Maderna, Bruno. --- Literature. --- Satire, Latin. --- Men as literary characters --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Satyricon (Petronius Arbiter) --- Saturae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satira (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satiricon (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satyrica (Petronius Arbiter) --- Begebenheiten des Enkolp (Petronius Arbiter) --- Petronii Arbitri Satyricon reliquiae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satyricon reliquiae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Rome (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Satire, Latin - History and criticism --- Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon --- Rome - In literature