Brill's Companion to AphroditeAmy Claire Smith, Sadie Pickup Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite--one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite's Identity'; 'Aphrodite's Companions and Relations'; 'The Spread of Aphrodite's Cults' and 'The Reception of the Goddess.' Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods--from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess |
Contents
An Overview | 3 |
Into the Future | 17 |
The Goddess of Appearances | 29 |
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Aeneas Aeneid Aineias Akropolis Anchises ancient antique Aphrodite's appearance Archaeological Archaic Artemis Astarte Athena Athenian Augustan beauty Bonnard Botticelli Byzantine Cambridge Casket century BC ciel et guerre Classical context Coroplastic Art cult of Aphrodite Cypriot Aphrodite Cyprus dedicated deity Delivorrias depicted divine epithet Eros erotic evidence example Excavations female figure figurines fourth century goddess gods Greece Hathor Hellenistic Hermary Hesiod Hittite Hoffner Homeric Hymn iconography Idalion Iliad Inschriften inscriptions interpretation Ištar Karageorghis Kition Knidos Kypris L'Aphrodite grecque Leukas LIMC literary London male martial monopteros mosaic Museum myth naked nude Odysseus Ourania Oxford painting Paphos Paris Paus Pausanias Photo Pirenne-Delforge Pironti Praxiteles reference role Roman Rome s.v. Aphrodite sanctuary of Aphrodite scene sculpture sexual shrine statue Stormgod suggest temple terracottas trans Trojan Ulbrich Venus and Mars viewer Villa Villa Farnesina Virgil's visual votive Worshipping Aphrodite Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ τε