Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.

Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith -- Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May -- Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger -- Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh -- The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.

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