Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea.
This article argues that the Priapus of the Carmina Priapea is trapped—spatially and poetologically—by the domain over which he presides: lewd obscenity. I show how the CP 's garden becomes the only space in which Priapus could live while being the obscene creature that he is, which creates a series...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 120; no. 3; pp. 352 - 376 |
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