Episode XCIX - Q and A IV
Emperors of Rome
00:00
Priapus, the God of Fertility, Is a Great Example of This.
The romans were so happy to take onothe gods. That encourages local integration into the roman empire a bit easier if you can bring your gods with you. My favourite lesson, kown god is, yes, sorry, i get one now. Yes, terminus, the god of, i like to call it fence disputes, but he's his boundary markers. And as a result, to keep terminus appeased, they apparently had a little shrine in to show him that he still had little place in there. In the spirit of that, maybe we should mention priapus. I feel like i should, because my supervisor wrote a book called the garden of priaphus
Transcript
Play full episode
