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Priapus
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In Greek mythology, Priapus (; , ''Priapos'') was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a popular figure in Roman erotic art and Latin literature, and is the subject of the often humorously obscene collection of verse called the ''Priapeia''.
==Relationship with other deities==
Priapus was described as the son of Aphrodite by Dionysus, or the son of Dionysus and Chione,〔Scholia on Theocritus, 1. 21〕 perhaps as the father or son of Hermes,〔Kerenyi, ''Gods of the Greeks'', 1951, p. 175, noting G. Kaibel, ''Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus collecta'', 817, where the other god's name, both father and son of Hermes, is obscured; Hyginus (''Fabulae'' 160) makes Hermes the father of Pan.〕 and the son of Zeus or Pan, depending on the source.〔"Priapus". ''The Oxford Companion to World Mythology''. David Leeming. Oxford University Press, 2004.〕 According to legend, Hera cursed him with impotence, ugliness and foul-mindedness while he was still in Aphrodite's womb, in revenge for the hero Paris having the temerity to judge Aphrodite more beautiful than Hera.〔An elaboration on a ''scholium'' on Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica'' i. Kereny remarks of the jealousy of Hera in this case, "a cheap theme, and certainly not an ancient one" (Kerenyi 1951, p.176).〕 The other gods refused to allow him to live on Mount Olympus and threw him down to Earth, leaving him on a hillside. He was eventually found by shepherds and was brought up by them.
Priapus joined Pan and the satyrs as a spirit of fertility and growth, though he was perennially frustrated by his impotence. In a ribald anecdote told by Ovid,〔Ovid, ''Fasti'', vi.319ff〕 he attempted to rape the goddess Hestia but was thwarted by an ass, whose braying caused him to lose his erection at the critical moment and woke Hestia. The episode gave him a lasting hatred of asses and a willingness to see them destroyed in his honour.〔"Priapus." ''Who's Who in Classical Mythology'', Routledge. 2002.〕 The emblem of his lustful nature was his permanent erection and his large penis. Another myth states that he pursued the nymph Lotis until the gods took pity on her and turned her into a lotus plant.〔"Priapus." ''Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth''. 1996.〕
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