Hera offered kingship as a gift, Athena offered Paris success in all wars and Aphrodite bribed Paris with the love of the most beautiful human woman. After Paris chose Aphrodite, he passed her the golden apple, which infuriated both Hera and Athena for neither of them being picked the ...
Aphrodite was the source of inspiration to all artists and sculptors of that age who competed to bring their own vision of the beauty of the female form to life in marble and mosaics. The goddess of love and beauty, a symbol that endured for millennia of human history KITION APHRODITE CULTU...
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Hesiod, Works and Days 60 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "He [Zeus] bade famous Hephaistos make haste and mix earth with water and to put in it the voice and strength of human kind, and fashion a sweet, lovely maiden-shape, like to the immortal ...
"There is a younger legend, that her [Beroe Goddess of the city of Beruit's] mother was Kythereia [Aphrodite] herself, the pilot of human life, who bore her all white to Assyrian Adonis. Now she had completed the nine circles of Selene's course carrying her burden . . . Themis was...
'Ganja Man', 'King Of The Beats', 'Style From The Darkside', 'All Over Me', 'Summer Breeze', 'Dub Moods' and 'Stalker' from the infamous record shop scene in movie 'Human Traffic', ' Mash Up You Know', 'Booyaa' and 'We Enter', to name just a few solo compositions have all...
Cupid fell in love with her. Cupid visited her every night at a magnificent palace but never showed her his face. Four impossible tasks got married and gave birth to a child called “Pleasure” Psyche means “soul”, an allegory of the union of the human soul with the divine. Cupid and...
The latent content manifested itself in two different forms – the castration of Uranus and the creation of another child. Later on in the myth, Hesiod also discusses this mysterious child: “And she emerged a dread and beautiful goddess… among human beings and the immortal gods she wins as...
The story of Aphrodite and her interlude with the human Adonis makes for an interesting study of the double edged sword that passion can be. In this myth, the vulnerability of the goddess is poignant. This vulnerability points to the fact that in Greek mythology even the gods could suffer, ...
Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her - which is Aphrodite's realm. Her domain may involve love, but it does not involve romance; rather, it tends more towards lust, the human irrational longing...