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Priapeia

Woman painting a statue of Priapus, from a fresco at Pompeii

The Priapeia (or Carmina Priapea) is a collection of eighty (in some editions ninety-five) anonymous short Latin poems in various meters on subjects pertaining to the phallic god Priapus. They are believed to date from the 1st century AD or the beginning of the 2nd century.[1] A traditional theory about their origin is that they are an anthology of poems written by various authors on the same subject. However, it has recently been argued that the 80 poems are in fact the work of a single author, presenting a kind of biography of Priapus from his vigorous youth to his impotence in old age.[2]

  1. ^ Kloss (2003); Kenney (1963).
  2. ^ See Holzberg (2005) for a review of the literature.

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