Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
PRIAPEIA
, a collection of poems (about eighty in number) in various metres on the subject of See also:Priapus
.
It was compiled from See also:literary See also:works and See also:inscriptions on images of the See also:god by an unknown editor, who composed the See also:introductory See also:epigram
.
From their See also:style and versification it is evident that the poems belong to the best See also:period of Latin literature
.
Some, however, may be interpolations of a later period
.
They will be found in F
.
Biicheler's See also:Petronius (1904), L
.
See also: |
|
|
[back] PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos) |
[next] PRIAPULOIDEA |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.