Priapea

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Nocturnal sacrifice to Priapus. Fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii .
Adoration of Priapus from a modern perspective ( Agostino Carracci ).

The Priapea , also called Carmina Priapea , Priapeia , Carmina Priapeia or Corpus Priapeorum , is a collection of 80 (in some editions also 95) poems with erotic content compiled by an anonymous ancient author. The poems take their name from the garden god Priapus, who is characterized by an oversized phallus . Well-known ancient poets such as Virgil , Horace , Ovid or Martial also sang about Priapus in poems. The Priapea were also received in humanism .

expenditure

  • Emil Baehrens : Poetae Latini minores . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1879.
  • Alexander von Bernus: Carmina Priapeia. In adaptation by Alexander von Bernus with a critical introduction by Adolf Dannegger . Private print by the Schuster & Loeffler publishing house, Berlin / Leipzig 1905.
  • Vinzenz Buchheit : Studies on the Corpus Priapeorum . CH Beck, 1962, ISBN 3-406-03268-0 (Latin, German).
  • Christiane Goldberg: Carmina Priapea. Introduction, translation, interpretation and commentary . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-533-04570-6 .
  • Bernhard Kytzler : Carmina Priapea. Poems to the garden god . In: The Library of the Old World . Artemis, Munich / Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-7608-3651-8 (Latin, German).
  • Leonard C. Smithers, Sir Richard Burton: Priapeia, sive, Diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus, or, Sportive epigrams on Priapus . Universal Sales Marketing, 1995, ISBN 1-85326-617-5 .

literature

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Investigations

reception

  • Regina Höschele: Priapea (Carmina Priapea). In: Christine Walde (Ed.): The reception of ancient literature. Kulturhistorisches Werklexikon (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 7). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02034-5 , Sp. 749-758.

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