Shakespeare's Myths

Catullus. Carmina, Elegies  XVIII, XIX, XX.

Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History, IV, iii; IV, vi, 1.

Horace. Epodes, II.

Horace. Satires, VIII.

Hyginus. Fables, CLX.

Hyginus. Poetic Astronomy, II, xxiii.   

Ovid. Amores, II, iv, 32.

Ovid. Fasti, I, 391; 415-40; VI, 319-48.

Ovid. Metamorphoses, IX, 344-48; XIV, 637-41.

Pausanias. Description of Greece, IX, xxxi, 2. 

Petronius. The Satyricon, chapters III, IV, IX, XIII, XV, XVI.

Strabo. Geography, VIII, vi, 24; XIII, I,12.

Suetonius. On Grammarians, XI.

Theocritus. Idyls,  I, 85.

Tibullus. Elegies, I, I, 1-24; I, iv, 7; I, iv, 67.

Virgil. Eclogues, VII, 33-36.

VirgilGeorgics, IV, 109-11.

Virgil? Priapea  [anonymous collection of priapic poems attributed to Virgil.]

How to cite

Frédéric Delord. “Priapus.”  2009.  In A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré.  http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/257/priapus

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