Carmina Priapea: Griechisch – lateinisch – deutsch

Published by De Gruyter (A) 2021

Carmina Priapea

Griechisch – lateinisch – deutsch

Carmina Priapea: Greek – Latin – German

Edited by: Niklas Holzberg

In the series Sammlung Tusculum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751376

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About this book

The garden god Priapus, depicted as a wooden statue with an oversized, red-painted phallus and a sickle in his hand, is said to ward off thieves. His obscene appearance has repeatedly inspired Greek and Latin poets to write more or less suggestive poems about him. An unknown poet, probably from the 2nd century AD, went the furthest in a book of poems dedicated to Priapus, carefully composed and intertextually linked with classical poetry, in which the god 'punishes' the intruders in his realm in three different ways with the 'weapon' sticking out from him.

In addition to this book, called Corpus Priapeorum, the volume contains the Priapus poems of older and more recent poets, including Theocritus, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, Petron and Prudentius with explanatory notes. The introduction provides information on the Priapus cult and categorises the texts in terms of literary history; an essay on the very rich influence of Priapus poetry since the early modern period deals with the reception by Lessing and Goethe, among others.

Moderne und erste wörtliche Übersetzung von heute kaum bekannten, aber z. B. von Goethe sehr geschätzten Texten
Antike Literatur mal erotisch und erheiternd zugleich
Mit einem Aufsatz zur vielfältigen Rezeptionsgeschichte

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Niklas Holzberg, Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
INHALT Publicly Available Download PDF	7
EINFÜHRUNG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
CORPVS PRIAPEORVM BUCH DER PRIAPUS-GEDICHTE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PRIAPVS IN ALIIS ALIORVM AVCTORVM CARMINIBVS PRIAP IN DICHTUNGEN ANDERER AUTOREN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
ANHANG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169

(Deutsch)

Languages: German, Latin, Ancient Greek
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
Audience: Scholars in the fields of classical philology, modern philology, religious history, classical archaeology
Pages
- Main content: 234
Keywords: Ancient literature; verse; phallus (motif)

eBook

Published: October 11, 2021
ISBN: 9783110751376

Hardcover

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110751369