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This essay explores Martial’s Priapic humor, focusing on those epigrams featuring Priapic “space” and the acts of seeing and being seen, whose object is to arouse at times uncomfortable laughter. It follows, and is indebted to, recent classical scholarship on the act of reading as a form of erotic viewing and on the comic or lubricious possibilities of viewing others within domestic or public spaces. Martial offers himself, through his racy epigrams, as an object of titillation to his audience. Indeed, Martial’s literary persona exposes himself for their pleasure and invites his readers, by reading his epigrams aloud, to take him into their mouths. This essay sheds further light on Martial’s humorous and scabrous Priapic persona in order to illustrate the ludic as well as the sexual and gustatory features of the act of reading in an oral culture.

Aroused by Laughter: Martial’s Priapic Humor