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Getting Down & Dirty with Mortals, Aphrodite, Anchises & the Mysteries of Archaic Aeneas

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

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The Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite

The story of aphrodite and aenea's father and chises comes to us from one of the homeric hymns to aphrodite. We learn that aphrodite has taken hold of the whims of the gods. When Aphrodite finds herself desiring this mortal man, due to the whims of zeus, she doesn't just head right down to him then and there. No instead, she goes off to paphos, on her sacred island of cyprus, where she gets ready for bed.

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