Aischrology
Aischrology (from the Greek αἰσχρολογία "dirty speech" or αἰσχρός "shame, shame"), also Tothasmos ( τωθασμός "ridicule", "teasing") denotes in the narrower sense diatribes in the cultic context of antiquity, for example when at the festivals of Artemis , the Demeter or Dionysus' women made obscene speeches in public or slaves reviled their masters with impunity. This form of Aeschrology thus belongs to the area of the exceptional time or the "upside-down world".
In a broader sense, Aischrology describes the diatribe as a means of rhetoric or as a literary means, for example in drama.
In a somewhat misunderstood form, Aeschrology can be interpreted as "swear words", a collector of obscene words would therefore be an Aischrologist . The study of swear words is again the subject of Maledictology .
literature
- Wolfgang Rösler: About Aischrology in archaic and classical Greece. In: S. Döpp (Ed.): Carnival-like phenomena in ancient and post-ancient cultures and literatures. Bochum Classical Science Colloquium, Vol. 13. Trier 1993. pp. 75-97
