ALL IN ONE PLACE: The Cult of Aphrodite, Mythology of Aphrodite, Transgender Aphrodite
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The Romans Appropriated an Ancient Mythology of Aphrodite
Aphrodite's powers to foment lust were so ephic and inescapable that none remained unaffected by them. The story appears both in the iliad and the homeric hymns, which both date to around the eighth or seventh centuries b c. Even zeus wasn't immune. And aphrodite's glorious powers seduced him time and again into constantly raping mortal women over his wife, harra's furious objections.
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