Joined in 2023 
82 
63 About this deal
While most Roman sculpture remains more or less intact, it is sometimes damaged or incomplete; life-size bronze sculptures are even more uncommon, since most have been recycled for their metal. Some stories of Lotis go on to say that she ran away when awoken by the ass, and Priapus chased after her. She was turned into the lotus plant to save her from assault. Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks, 1951, p. 175, noting G. Kaibel, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus collecta, 817, where the other god's name, both father and son of Hermes, is obscured; Hyginus ( Fabulae 160) makes Hermes the father of Pan.
Join us for our annual lighting of the gardens at Vindolanda this year we are focusing on the festival of Saturnalia and how it might have inspired some of our modern day traditions. Venus was the divine protector of Pompeii, and featured in many frescoes around the city. [7] The goddess of love, sex, and fertility, Venus was closely associated with eroticism and prostitution in ancient Rome. [8] The mural of Venus from Pompeii was never seen by Botticelli, the painter of The Birth of Venus, but may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned. Peyré, Yves. "Priape dénaturé: Remarques sur les Apotheseos…Deorum Libri Tres de Georges Pictor et leur adaptation anglaise par Stephen Batman". Influences latines en Europe (Cahiers de l’Europe Classique et Néo-Latine). Toulouse: Travaux de l’Université de Toulouse – Le Mirail, A.23 (1983): 61–87. Although no longer worshipped, Priapus has remained a recurrent subject of allusion in literature, mythology, religion and even medicine throughout history. Richard Payne Knight, in his 1786 work An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, identified Priapus-worship as surviving in Catholic phallic votives offered throughout parts of Italy during the eighteenth century. Priapus is also recognized as a saint by members of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, a branch of Ordo Templi Orientis upholding the philosophy of French author François Rabelais and occultist Aleister Crowley. In the field of medical science, the rare condition known as priapism, in which a male suffers persistent tumescence of the penis even in the absence of sexual desire, gets its name from Priapus.Statues of Priapus also served as guardians of homes, fields, and crops, providing a "no trespassing" sign, of sorts. In this case, Priapus represented the threat of violent rape, a common punitive measure in the ancient world. Epigrams inscribed upon these statues, later collected in Priapeia (see below), show Priapus using sodomy as a warning toward transgressors of the boundaries he protected much like a herm (a boundary marker): It is unclear whether the images on the walls were advertisements for the services offered or merely intended to heighten the pleasure of the visitors. As previously mentioned, some of the paintings and frescoes became immediately famous because they represented erotic, sometimes explicit, sexual scenes. In ridiculing the literal aspects of pagan gods given human form, he mentions "the Hellespontian Priapus bearing about among the goddesses, virgin and matron, those parts ever prepared for encounter." (Arnobius, Seven Books against the Heathen III.10 ( on-line text). Around 175 AD, the statue was constructed. The Roman Forum and Piazza Colonna (where the Column of Marcus Aurelius stands) have been offered as possible locations. However, it was discovered that the original location had been turned into a vineyard during the early Middle Ages. Grant, Michael; Mulas, Antonia (1997). Eros in Pompeii: The Erotic Art Collection of the Museum of Naples. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang. ISBN 978-1556706202.
Yves Bonnefoy, Roman and European Mythologies, pp. 139–142. University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-06455-7The Aulus Metellus statue was created as a votive gift. A votive offering is an item presented to any panhellenic deity in exchange for the successful fulfillment of a petition.
Mutinus caninus, a woodland fungus, draws its first name from Priapus's Roman name, due to its phallic shape.
Legends and Stories
Herms in ancient Greece were a unique style of statuary. On top of a square pillar sat the head of either a human or a god. This much is fairly standard but around half way down the pillar was carved a set of male genitalia.
Great Deal 
New Comment