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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Aphrodite, the Goddess Who Keeps an Eye on Prostitutes

The goddess Aphrodite was considered to be the goddess who kept an eye on sex workers and was their patron. There's this incredible discovery from athens of a silver medallion showing aphrodite riding a goat. And i'm sure that, as always in the kind of sad story of humans, something which might start off with a kind of e er purity and parity, that somebody ends up exploiting it somewhere down the line.

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