Paignion

The Paignion (plural Paignia , from Greek παιγνιον "game (stuff), joke, ridicule" to παῖς "child") is a form of ancient poetry that is mostly joking and mocking, sometimes also erotic and for a burlesque mimic-gestural presentation served.

Originally referred to by Plato as a literary genre , to which he also assigned comedy , only poetic small forms were called paignia in later terminology , which mostly had bucolic themes or contents and were characterized by special metrical artistry.

From the acquisition as Pägnium (of lat. Paegniarius "for the game properly") in the Latin literature are Erotopaignia get six erotisch- gallant books Laevius . Next to it is the technopaignion or carmen figuratum , which u. a. Pictorial poems cultivated by Theocritus , Porfyrius and - in Christian times - Venantius Fortunatus as an inscription on consecration gifts.