Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Deathless Beauty of a Mortal
Aphrodite makes the first move. She begins to shift, to bend, to warp her form like quicksilver. Hera and Athena quickly follow suit till shrewd Paris' sweetheart parades before him in triplicate. But it is always Aphrodite in the lead. It is always she who reads the young man best. And so Hera, queen of the gods, tries a change of tact. Perhaps you should judge us by another measure,. As she speaks, she plucks a lily. Its stem begins to guild to twist itself into a circle. Soon, all three goddesses are making sport of Paris, endowing themselves with the extremes of his shallowess
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