{"id":104032,"date":"2022-04-01T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=104032"},"modified":"2022-04-01T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:39:23","slug":"priapus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/priapus\/","title":{"rendered":"Priapus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Chapters<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/priapus\/#priapea\" >Priapea<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/priapus\/#mutunus-tutunus\" >Mutunus Tutunus<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/priap.jpg\"\n                                alt=\"Fresco depicting the god Priapus in the House of Vettii\"\n                width=\"250\"\n                height=\"375\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/priap.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Fresco depicting the god Priapus in the House of Vettii in Pompeii. Its fertility attribute can be easily seen. It is an example of a phallic cult.\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                Fresco depicting the god <b>Priapus<\/b> in the House of Vettii <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/in-pompeii-found-inscription-that-could-change-date-of-vesuvius-eruption-in-79-ce\/\">in Pompeii<\/a>. Its fertility attribute can be easily seen. It is an example of a phallic cult.            <\/div>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n<p><em>Priapus<\/em> was the Roman god of fertility, the guarantor of fertility. He was the son of Dionysus or Hermes and Aphrodite. He looked after gardens, trees growing in them and vineyards. The cult of Priapus was taken over by the Romans and adapted to their mythology. In <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, Priapus was initially the keeper of orchards and vineyards, and later also of fertility and harvest. Priapus&#8217;s sacrificial animal was a donkey.<\/p>\n<p>In the gardens, statues or herms depicting Priapus with an exposed member in an erect state were often placed, at which he was offered sacrifices from the first crops.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"priapea\"><\/span>Priapea<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Pieces of frivolous content were written in honour of Priapus (the so-called <em><b>Priapusea<\/b><\/em>). Poems dedicated to Priapus became popular in Rome at the end of the republic&#8217;s existence. Some of the first Priapuseas were the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-valerius-catullus\/\">Catullus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest dissemination of the Priapuseas in Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/literature-in-ancient-rome\/\">literature<\/a> took place during the reign of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a>. At that time, poems devoted to Priapus were written by, among others, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/horace\/\">Horace<\/a> and Tibullus. During the reign of <a title=\"Octavian August\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/oktawian-august\/\"><b>Octavian of Augustus<\/b><\/a>, the circle of poets gathered around Patron, the surviving <span class=\"underlined\">anonymous collection of 85 Priapuses<\/span>. These works, stylized as folk poetry, are a testimony to the great literary skill of the author (or authors), full of references, among others to Homer or Eratosthenes. In later years, <em>Priapusea<\/em> wrote, inter alia, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/martial\/\">Martial<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn the 2nd century CE, when Priapus began to be worshipped as the creator of nature, the works dedicated to him took on a more serious character. From this period comes, among others, the anonymous <em>Hymn to Priapus<\/em>, engraved on the herme discovered at Tivoli.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"mutunus-tutunus\"><\/span>Mutunus Tutunus<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mutinus_Titinus.jpg\"\n                                alt=\"A denarius issued by Quintus Titus\"\n                width=\"200\"\n                height=\"202\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mutinus_Titinus.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"A denarius issued by Quintus Titus\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                A denarius issued by Quintus Titus            <\/div>\n        \n                    <div class=\"chmurka\">\n                Creative Commons Attribution license - On the same terms 3.0.            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    A denarius issued by Quintus Titus, allegedly representing Mutunus Tutunus.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mutunus Tutunus<\/em> or <em>Mutinus Titinus<\/em> was a god who was often identified with Priapus. On the Velian hill in Rome, there was supposed to be a sanctuary with a statue of Mutunus Tutunus, imagined as a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/phallus-symbol-in-roman-and-greek-world\/\">phallus<\/a>. According to reports, women were to go to this sanctuary to crown the statue of the deity with wreaths.<br \/>\nThere are also messages according to which the images of the deity were supposed to be in the bedrooms. On their wedding day, brides were to sit on the image of the deity to offer him their virginity.<\/p>\n<p>This deity is poorly certified in sources, only Pompey Festus mentions him from Roman writers. Later accounts come from early Christian writers &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/tertullian\/\">Tertullian<\/a>, Augustine, Lactantius and Arnobius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priapus was the Roman god of fertility, the guarantor of fertility. He was the son of Dionysus or Hermes and Aphrodite. He looked after gardens, trees growing in them and vineyards. The cult of Priapus was taken over by the Romans and adapted to their mythology. In Rome, Priapus was initially the keeper of orchards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39928,"parent":54765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104032","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104032\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}