| 词条 | Elephantis |
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Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC) was a Greek poet and physician apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual.[1] Due to the popularity of courtesans taking animal names in classical times, it is likely Elephantis is two or more persons of the same name.[1] None of her works have survived, though they are referenced in other ancient texts. WorksAccording to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri.[2] One of the poems in the Priapeia refers to her books: Obscenas rigido deo tabellas ("Lalage dedicates a votive offering to the God of the erect penis, bringing shameless pictures from the books of Elephantis, and begs him to try and imitate with her the variety of intercourse of the figures in the illustrations.")[4] And an epigram by the Roman poet Martial, which Smithers and Burton included in their collection of poems concerning Priapus, reads: Quales nec Didymi sciunt puellae, ("Such verses as neither the daughters of Didymus know, nor the debauched books of Elephantis, in which are set out new forms of lovemaking.")[4] "Novae figurae" has been read as "novem figurae" (i.e., "nine forms" of lovemaking, rather than "new forms" of lovemaking), and so some commentators have inferred that she listed nine different sexual positions.[6] Pliny references her performance as a midwife, and Galen notes her ability to cure baldness.[1] She also wrote a manual about cosmetics and another about abortives.[7] Notes1. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Marilyn Bailey|title=Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography|year=1986|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=026265038X|edition=Reprint.}} 2. ^Suet. Tib. 43.2. 3. ^Priapeia 4. 4. ^1 Trans. L.C. Smithers and R.F. Burton, Priapea sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus, or, Sportive Epigrams on Priapus (1890). 5. ^Martial, Ep. 43.1–4. 6. ^{{Cite book|title = The Joy of Sexus: Lust, Love, and Longing in the Ancient World|last = Léon|first = Vicki|publisher = Walker & Company|year = 2013|isbn = 080271997X|location = New York|pages = 118}} 7. ^Galen 12.416 and Pliny 28.81 cited in {{cite book |last=Plant|first=Ian Michael| title=Women writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: an anthology | year=2004 | publisher=University of Oklahoma Press }} References
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