RE-AIR: The Cyprian Goddess, the Cytherean, Venus, Aphrodite, A Conversation with Author Bettany Hughes
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Birth of Venus, by Botticelli, in the Relationship Ship
The most famous version of tisbecome a progenitor, in some ways, is the canidian aphrodite. She goes from being this ficy, potent warrior goddess through time to suddenly, literally, like losing her clothes, all her clothes drop off and she becomes a pin up goddess. So when you see these images of aphrodite, as i said, as a kind of pin up, that's you can chart the diminishment of female re female power in society,. both in the greek world and later in the roman world.
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