Gary,
You are probably looking for the Priapea, a corpus of poems described as
gutter-latin...that pays tribute to the god Priapus, the wooden-phallused
god of the garden. For a sample, see
http://www.obscure.org/obscene-latin/obscure_texts.html (The Charles
Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical
I'm not sure if this will have exactly what you're looking for, but I've
found it a useful resource for images of myth, etc.
http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index-2.html
Ed DeHoratius
At 5:49 PM 12/9/98, Steven N. Zwicker wrote:
I am writing to ask if any members of this list-serve can
At 05:55 AM 12/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
There used to be some better Priapea/Priapus sites online, but the ones I
had bookmarked are no longer in existence. The Priapea, or some of it, was
traditionally attributed to Virgil.
There is a (not very good) English translation of the Priapeia at
Dear List,
I am trying to find a poem Virgil wrote
regarding I believe Peripus
I copied it down in the museum at
Ephesus, however my notebook was stolen.
...
Gary Glazner
Could Peripus be Periplus the Latin spelling of the Greek word
periplous or sailing by and refer either to Vergil's
I don't know the poem your referring to. But I thought you might find a
poem called the Pervigilium Veneris which is made up of half-lines and
lines from Vergil but on a rather more humorous topic interesting.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember who it is by. Anyone?
Adrian Pay
I think you may be
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I don't know the poem your referring to. But I thought you might find a
poem called the Pervigilium Veneris which is made up of half-lines and
lines from Vergil but on a rather more humorous topic interesting.
Unfortunately, I
I am writing to ask if any members of this list-serve can identify for me
renaissance paintings or engravings after paintings which depict Virgil
reading the Aeneid to the court of Augustus Caesar. This seems to be a
theme for 18th- and 19th-century French paintings but I think that I've
seen a
