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Priapeia (Wordsworth Classic Erotica)

The Priapeia, now for the first time literally and completely translated into English verse and prose, is a collection of short Latin poems in the shape of jocose epigrams affixed to the statues of the god Priapus. These were often rude carvings from a tree-trunk, human-shaped, with a huge phallus which could at need be used as a cudgel against robbers, and they were placed in the gardens of wealthy Romans, for the twofold purpose of promoting fertility and of preventing depredations on the produce.

95 passages in English and Latin, with notes and glossaries.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 483
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781853266171
  • Genres
  • poetry, erotica, classics
  • Release date
  • 1995