Contents -- 1. Satiric Advice: SERIOUS OR NOT? Warren S. Smith -- 2. "In a Different Guise": ROMAN EDUCATION AND GREEK RHETORICAL THOUGHT ON MARRIAGE. Richard Hawley -- 3. Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama. Susanna Morton Braund -- 4. "The Cold Cares of Venus": LUCRETIUS AND ANTI-MARRIAGE LITERATURE. Warren S. Smith -- 5. Marriage and Gender in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poetry. Karla Pollmann -- 6. Advice on Sex by the Self-Defeating Satirists: HORACE Sermones 1.2, JUVENAL Satire 6, AND ROMAN SATIRIC WRITING. Warren S. Smith -- 7. Chaste Artemis and Lusty Aphrodite: THE PORTRAIT OF WOMEN AND MARRIAGE IN THE GREEK AND LATIN NOVELS. Regine May -- 8. Dissuading from Marriage: JEROME AND THE ASCETICIZATION OF SATIRE. Elizabeth A. Clark -- 9. Change and Continuity in Pagan and Christian (Invective) Thought on Women and Marriage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Barbara Feichtinger -- 10. Walter as Valerius: CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN IN THE Dissuasio. Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- 11. Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages. P. G. Walsh -- 12. The Wife of Bath and Dorigen Debate Jerome. Warren S. Smith -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.