A survey of foul language in the ancient world
What is foul language?
Plato and Aristotle on foul language
Plato and the dangers of mimesis
Aristotle and the bounds of humor
Abuse
Laws against slander
Religious rites
Excursus : the language of some love charms
Comedy
New forms of comic drama
Literary obscenities
Epigram
Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals
Ovid's culpa
Speech, character, and self-definition
Speech as it relates to character
Speech as it defined specific groups
Cynics and shameless speech
Stoics
The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language
Excursus : Bryson the Megarian
Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech
Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity
Prophetic scatology
Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach
Jesus
James
Didache 3:3 and the two ways
Paul
Galatians 5:12
Philippians 3:8: [Greek text]
Colossians and Ephesians
Colossians 3:8
Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt"
Ephesians
Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14
"Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3)
"Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12)
Speech rules in 1QS
Profaning a sanctum
Not fitting for holy ones
Speech and Christian identities
Clement of Alexandria on foul language
The divine paedagogue and Christian manners
On foul language
Excursus : Clement and the Didache
A "deeper logos" about foul language
Comparing Clement.