Another is that I thought it reimagined Aphrodite, her presence, in a Sapphic way. |
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What I couldn't do then and couldn't do for thirty years was the first line of the first poem, the hymn to Aphrodite. |
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Yeah, uh, Aphrodite. You must sit still and keep your attention-seeking gob shut. |
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And I just saw something about a new comic with a heroine called Aphrodite. |
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Not only that, but depending on who you ask, Aphrodite isn't really an Olympian. |
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She was the arbitress in the argument over Adonis between Persephone and Aphrodite. |
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He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath. |
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He goes on a quest to kill the gorgon Medusa and is helped by Hermes and Aphrodite. |
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An ivory Aphrodite is celebrated by her hierodules in myrtle bowers. |
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Several weeks after the sculptor finished his statue of Aphrodite drowsing, he sent a messenger to the model asking her to come and visit his hut again. |
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To the first of the immortals, the beautiful Aphrodite came. |
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According to Greek mythology, the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, comes out of the ocean in a shell. |
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On this occasion he sings of the illicit love affair of Ares and Aphrodite in a version that lasts for exactly 100 Homeric verses. |
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His technically expert pencil drawing of the statue of Aphrodite from the museum's collection is included in the journal. |
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia. |
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Menelaus would have defeated Paris in single combat, but Aphrodite rescued him, and the war continued. |
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The oldest are of Aegina, with, obverse, a turtle associated with Aphrodite and, reverse, an incuse square. |
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Are we to see them as analagous, somehow, to the irretrievably broken potsherd on which the hymn to Aphrodite was found? |
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Erice was known for its temple where the Phoenicians worshiped Astarte, the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus. |
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Zeus, Apollo, Theseus, Aphrodite, the daughters of Cadmus, and many others, formed these crews. |
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So, Aphrodite got the apple, and Paris got off with Helen, who unfortunately happened to be married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. |
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The chancellor was not amused on opening the local papers and finding herself climbing into the Aphrodite thermal spring in a bathing suit. |
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A combination of Cyprus's economic meltdown and the Aphrodite gasfield should be enough to justify a new attempt. |
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Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere. |
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Gossip in the trade suggested that Aphrodite had in fact been found not long before in Sicily. |
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This fresco is in the audience hall at Qusayr 'Amra and is inspired by images of Aphrodite. |
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Cyprus is well known as the island of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, who, according to legend, was born here. |
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This ideal manifests in our world, only for moments, like Aphrodite, as the foam of the sea waves. |
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The second is from my Aphrodite series: here, the fissuring expresses the tension between the matter and the surrounding world. |
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Aphrodite clasped the apple of discord to her breast and turned her eyes to seek out the prize for the shepherd who judged her greater than the Queen of Olympus. |
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Cyprus is nicknamed the Isle of Love because it is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite. |
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The exact spot where Aphrodite was born of foam is just off the coast of Kythira, and anyone can visit it. |
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Aphrodite and the Gods of Love acknowledges her crucial role in the epic Trojan War with The Judgement of Paris. |
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Now, after a cultural tug-of-war and a lengthy trial in Rome, Aphrodite is finally going home to Sicily. |
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At Zeus' command Paris had been the judge at a beauty contest and had to choose which of the goddesses Hera, Athene, or Aphrodite was the fairest. |
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A comparable myth in the Greek tradition is the myth of Aphrodite rising from the foam of the sea following Ouranos's castration by Kronos. |
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The Greeks identified Hathor with their Aphrodite. |
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The Ancient Greek section is led by a stunning marble sfumato of Aphrodite from the island of Rhodes. |
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This bathing beauty brings to mind images of the Goddess of love, Aphrodite, whose image may have served as a source of inscription for this panel. |
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But by then Mr Ferri's investigation had achieved its aim: Aphrodite was back in Italy, along with dozens of other looted antiquities from American museums. |
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As for our beloved, long-suffering Cyprus, the green and golden leaf tossed into the sea, the island of Aphrodite, we all welcome it, as I do, as a Greek. |
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Jealous of the devotion Hippolytos offers to her virgin rival, Artemis, Aphrodite levels our hero with a nasty double whammy. |
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Paris chose Helen's love and gave the apple to Aphrodite. |
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Dolphins are associated with other gods, such as Apollo, Dionysus and Aphrodite. |
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The Secret Valley Golf Course is a highly prestigious golf course located by Petra tou Romiou in Paphos, renowned as the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite. |
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Purchased by the city of Knidos in the mid-4th century BCE, the sculpture served as a cult statue in the Temple of Aphrodite Euploia. |
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I stayed silent, I think, after a remark Aphrodite had made. |
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Constantine built the new Church of the Holy Apostles on the site of a temple to Aphrodite. |
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Also, the Greeks and Romans did not compare Tanit to the Greek Aphrodite nor to the Roman Venus as they would Astarte. |
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By the end, she's a dead ringer for Aphrodite. |
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Traditionally Clio, after reprimanding the goddess Aphrodite for her passionate love for Adonis, was punished by Aphrodite, who made her fall in love with Pierus, king of Macedonia. |
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Aphrodite developed one of the first examples of remotely controlled flying bombs. |
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My fishwife impression makes Aphrodite laugh. |
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The mysterious eliminate that live, claiming descent from the lineage of the legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, son of Aphrodite, who speaks of the holy temple in the Aeneid. |
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Poppies also frequently adorned statues of Apollo, Asklepios, Pluto, Demeter, Aphrodite, Kybele and Isis, symbolizing nocturnal oblivion. |
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The Greeks associated it with the gods Dionysus, Aphrodite and Artemis as well as with satyrs and cupids. |
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After being bribed by both Hera and Athena, Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta. |
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Aphrodite shakes her head again, pensively. |
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The young woman's pose, sometimes interpreted by contemporary critics as the expression of a certain animality, is derived from that of the Crouching Aphrodite of antiquity. |
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Paris is beaten, but Aphrodite rescues him and leads him to bed with Helen before Menelaus can kill him. |
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Athena offered Paris victory in battle, Hera, great wealth, while Aphrodite merely loosened the clasps by which her tunic was fastened and unknotted her girdle, also offering Paris the most beautiful of mortal women. |
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Like Aphrodite emerging from of the waves, Bilitis, well known greek courtesan born from Pierre Louÿs' imagination, could not fail to inspire the painter Saint-Geniès. |
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In addition to her Academy Award for her performance in the film Mighty Aphrodite, Ms. Sorvino received a Golden Globe nomination for her powerful performance in the landmark miniseries Human Trafficking. |
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The centre of this small octagonal room is occupied by a statue of the splendidly preserved Capitoline Venus, based on the prototype model of the Cnidian Aphrodite by Praxiteles. |
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Cythera was also noted in ancient times for its local cult of Aphrodite. |
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An example of one of these relationships in the Iliad occurs between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. |
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It is not known with certainty to which god the temple was consecrated, some scholars have suggested the Dioscuri, but it is also thought to Zeus, Persephone and Aphrodite. |
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Cyprus occupies an important role in Greek mythology being the birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis, and home to King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion. |
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In a few cases, a female divinity mates with a mortal man, as in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where the goddess lies with Anchises to produce Aeneas. |
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The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Dionysus. |
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He awarded the apple to Aphrodite, thus indirectly causing the Trojan War. |
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For example, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, Ares was the god of war, Hades the ruler of the underworld, and Athena the goddess of wisdom and courage. |
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The other Greek gods that made up the Twelve Olympians were Ares, Poseidon, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Hermes. |
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For example, Poseidon is the god of the sea, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, Ares is the god of war, and so on and so forth for many other gods. |
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