Greek Name Αφροδιτη Transliteration Aphroditê Latin Spelling Aphrodite Translation Venus Aphrodite riding goose, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., British Museum APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman ...
Greek Name Αφροδιτη Transliteration Aphroditê Latin Spelling Aphrodite Translation Venus Aphrodite and the Erotes, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation....
In Russian translation: In Ellinskie poety. Translated by V. V. Veresaev. Moscow, 1963. REFERENCES Iarkho, V., and K. Polonskaia.Antichnaia lirika. Moscow, 1967. Pages 49–52. Bowra, C. M.Greek Lyric Poetry. Oxford, 1961.
The Greek goddess Aphrodite may have been an import from the Near East where Sumerian and Babylonian goddesses played a part in love, fertility, and war. For the Greeks, Aphrodite was goddess of love and beauty. Although Aphrodite bore children to the messenger and war gods, is considered mar...
The goddess Hera prompted Aphrodite to become involved in one of the most important events in Greek prehistory, the Quest for the Golden Fleece. TheArgonautikaby Apollodorus of Rhodes recounts the quest in which the influence of Aphrodite brought a much-needed element of love to an epic adventu...
In Greek mythology, Medea was an enchantress and witch who used her magic powers to help Jason* and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece*. Later, after Jason betrayed her, she used her witchcraft to ... 分享回复赞 threezero吧 街头橡胶 マジンガーZのサポートロボが新解釈...
She is known by many epithets, which is a literary device used often in Greek literature to characterize people and places in order to denote their importance to the story. Aphrodite's epithets include: Ourania, meaning 'heavenly'; Pandemos, meaning 'common to all the people'; Paphian, ...
other hand, is very enjoyable, being rather poppy in nature. The singer reminds me of David Bowie. 'The Beast' has a humourous mood which contrasts to the rest of the album. The fifteen-second closer,Ofis, is another monologue spoken in Greek. It is, quite literally, all Greek to me...
Suda, s.v. Philemon May we finally declare Solon innocent of founding public brothels in Athens? This charge was stated as fact by a distinguished historian a quarter-century ago.1 The hoary old canard has just been repeated in a Greek history textbook written by the same author and three ...
Robert Hecht poses in front of the famous looted Greek vase he sold the museum in 1972 for $1 million. As former Getty antiquities curatorMarion Truedescribed in a 2001 deposition, once a museum had several pieces of an important vase, antiquities dealers would charge increasingly higher prices...