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-"Like pornográphos, then, ‘anaischuntográphos and rhyparográphos refer to a class of artists and not to a class of art (pornography, anaischuntography, [[rhyparography]]). All three words occur only once—even if rhyparographos only turns up in a Latin writer’s coinage—so that their general lack of wider attestation or context seems more readily to have paved the way for the fabrication by later European commentators of genres from producers."+"Like ''pornográphos'', then, ‘anaischuntográphos and rhyparográphos refer to a class of artists and not to a class of art ([[pornography]], [[anaischuntography]], [[rhyparography]]). All three words occur only once—even if rhyparographos only turns up in a Latin writer’s coinage—so that their general lack of wider attestation or context seems more readily to have paved the way for the fabrication by later European commentators of genres from producers."
-While all three words share this past, anaischuntography—alas—has failed to catch on and has enjoyed none of the wide usage that pornography and rhyparography went on to. By the turn of the twentieth century, for instance, ‘rhyparography’ had an already well-established sense of moral judgment coupled with contempt (Whitney & Smith, 1903, p. 5161); in reviewing Stephen Crane’s George’s Mother, for instance, Henry Thurston Peck in 1896 could throw the word around:+While all three words share this past, anaischuntography—alas—has failed to catch on and has enjoyed none of the wide usage that pornography and rhyparography went on to. By the turn of the twentieth century, for instance, ‘rhyparography’ had an already well-established sense of moral judgment coupled with contempt (Whitney & Smith, 1903, p. 5161); in reviewing [[Stephen Crane]]’s ''[[George's Mother]]'', for instance, [[Henry Thurston Peck]] in 1896 could throw the word around:
-We are not going to object to the narrative of a squalid debauch, but we do assert that if a writer forces it upon our notice, he shall justify himself by limning it with some power and artistic sense, as Zola drew, in L’Assommoir, that Rabelaisian revel at which Coupeau and Lantier met and opened up the way for the final débâcle. Rhyparography is the lowest form of art, but at least it should be good of its kind. Mr. Crane’s rhyparography is in this book incongruous, formless, and deadly dull” (qtd. in Monteiro, 2009, p. 81, italics in original)+We are not going to object to the narrative of a squalid debauch, but we do assert that if a writer forces it upon our notice, he shall justify himself by limning it with some power and artistic sense, as Zola drew, in ''[[L'Assommoir]]'', that Rabelaisian revel at which Coupeau and Lantier met and opened up the way for the final ''[[débâcle]]''. Rhyparography is the lowest form of art, but at least it should be good of its kind. Mr. Crane’s rhyparography is in this book incongruous, formless, and deadly dull” (qtd. in Monteiro, 2009, p. 81, italics in original)[https://panopticonsrus.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/a-history-of-pornography-the-word/]
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"Like pornográphos, then, ‘anaischuntográphos and rhyparográphos refer to a class of artists and not to a class of art (pornography, anaischuntography, rhyparography). All three words occur only once—even if rhyparographos only turns up in a Latin writer’s coinage—so that their general lack of wider attestation or context seems more readily to have paved the way for the fabrication by later European commentators of genres from producers."

While all three words share this past, anaischuntography—alas—has failed to catch on and has enjoyed none of the wide usage that pornography and rhyparography went on to. By the turn of the twentieth century, for instance, ‘rhyparography’ had an already well-established sense of moral judgment coupled with contempt (Whitney & Smith, 1903, p. 5161); in reviewing Stephen Crane’s George's Mother, for instance, Henry Thurston Peck in 1896 could throw the word around:

We are not going to object to the narrative of a squalid debauch, but we do assert that if a writer forces it upon our notice, he shall justify himself by limning it with some power and artistic sense, as Zola drew, in L'Assommoir, that Rabelaisian revel at which Coupeau and Lantier met and opened up the way for the final débâcle. Rhyparography is the lowest form of art, but at least it should be good of its kind. Mr. Crane’s rhyparography is in this book incongruous, formless, and deadly dull” (qtd. in Monteiro, 2009, p. 81, italics in original)[1]

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"A HISTORY OF “PORNOGRAPHY” (the word)"[2] is text on the word pornography by PanopticonsRus, first published on 29 June, 2015.

This extensively researched article confirms that the word πορνογράφον (“pornographers”) is a hapax legomenon in Ancient Greek:

"Conventionally, the word πορνογράφον (“pornographers”) dates to circa the late-second century of the common era in book 13 of Athenæus’ festive Deipnosophistae, a text brimming with descriptions of Mediterranean life dedicated very often to food (Perseus Digital Library, 2014 [1854]), which in book 13 means also women for sale. The word appears nowhere else if we would trust one of the most, if not the most, extensive online collection of classical texts available, the Perseus Digital Library (2014 [1854]), which itself has the authority of a “truth of the period” in Leps’ (1992) sense; Herz (2005) and McClure (2003) also confirm the origin of the word in nowhere but Athenæus."

Bibliography

  • Herz, M. (2005). PornoGRAPHIE: Eine Geschichte. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.[3]
    • "Die ubiquitär aufgestellte Behauptung, dass das Wort „Pornographie“ aus dem Altgriechischen käme, ist schlichtweg falsch, wovon man sich durch einen einzigen Blick ins Wörterbuch überzeugen kann."
  • McClure, L. (2003). Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Leps, M.-C. (1992). Apprehending the criminal: The production of deviance in nineteenth-century discourse: Duke University Press.

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