PRIAPUS was an ithyphallic deity of ancient Greece and Rome. He is known mainly as the god of Roman gardens, where images of him, usually holding up his fruit-laden garment to exhibit his outsize sexual organ, were often placed. However, from the time...

A Phrygian god of fertility, of gardens, bees, goats and sheep. In Greece, he was unknown until the Macedonian hegemony, and his cult never assumed significant proportions, either in Greece or in Rome. His father was said to be → Dionysos, and...

In Greek mythology, Priapus (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος) was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. His Roman equivalent was Mutinus Mutunus. He was best noted for his huge, permanently erect...