This son of Dionysus and Aphrodite served as a patron god for merchant sailors, while red-painted statues of him were placed in fields to serve as simultaneous scarecrows and fertility emblems.
Richard Payne Knight's first book was about the Worship of this deity, who was said to be born in the city of Lampsacus on the Hellespont. A wall painting in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii depicts this god weighing various fruits against one of his own possessions. In a pair of stories from Ovid's Fasti, the braying of a donkey belonging to Silenus foiled this god's attempt to rape either the nymph Lotis or Vesta. This son of Dionysus and Aphrodite served as a patron god for merchant sailors, while red-painted statues of him were placed in fields to serve as simultaneous scarecrows and fertility emblems. For 10 points, name this Greco-Roman deity with a gigantic, permanently-erect phallus, who lends his name to a similar medical disorder.
Richard Payne Knight's first book was about the Worship of this deity, who was said to be born in the city of Lampsacus on the Hellespont.
Priapus