Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic
Author: Deborah Dickmann Boedeker
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-06-22
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 900432741X
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Author: Deborah Dickmann Boedeker
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-06-22
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 900432741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deborah Dickmann Boedeker
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 97
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy C. Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9047444507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrill'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
Author: Morris Silver
Publisher: Ugarit-Verlag - Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3868353003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book does not intend to demonstrate that Greeks and other ancient Mediterranean peoples, men and women, married and unmarried, sought and participated in sex for its own sake. That is, it is taken as obvious, a given, that they were able to separate sex for pleasure from sex for reproduction. There never were human beings who concerned themselves only with “fertility”. Neither, does this study seek to demonstrate that some ancient Greeks were willing to provide sexual services to partners in return for the receipt of nonsexual benefits. Again, this is self-evident. Nor does this study intend to show that the ancient Mediterranean world was familiar with individuals and enterprises that regularly earned incomes by selling sexual services. Clearly, the ancient world knew prostitution as an occupation and as a form of enterprise. In an article published by Ugarit-Forschungen in 2008, Silver (2006a) challenged the view that temple/sacred prostitution did not exist in the ancient Near East. Contrary to such scholars as Julia Assante (1998, 2003), Martha T. Roth (2006) and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (2010), ample evidence indicates that it did. For the convenience of readers this article is included as a Supplement to the present volume. The original article has been reformatted to correct some typographical errors and to make it blend seamlessly into the present volume but otherwise it is unchanged. More recent materials from the ancient Near East are considered mostly in footnotes, however. The present study seeks to leap beyond this finding by showing that temple prostitution also flourished in the ancient Mediterranean. That it did is of course an “old” view, but the old supporting arguments often lack rigor and even clarity and the supporting evidence is fragmentary, contradictory and often facially absurd (e.g. Herodotus 1.199.1–5). Work of this kind has been discredited by scholars such as Fay Glinister (2000) and Stephanie Lynn Budin (2008).
Author: Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0195339363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNympholeptic goddesses at the end of the theogony -- Nympholepts in ancient Greece -- Goddesses in love and nympholeptic heroes -- Odysseus nympholeptos -- Kephalos in the city -- Hellenistic nympholeptoi
Author: Barbara Breitenberger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1135883769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a groundbreaking revision of the popular image of Aphrodite and Eros that lives on in Roman poetry (Venus and Cupid) and has inspired artists for centuries. An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period - using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence - shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult. Eros, however, was not yet a similarly personified mythical figure at that stage, nor did he have an individual cult. Breitenberger follows the different stages of the development of Eros's personality. Originally a cosmic entity and an unpersonified aspect of Aphrodite, he was given his mythical identity by successive archaic lyric poets who were particularly keen to mythologize a male counterpart to the established love-goddess Aphrodite. This male love-god turns out to be the divinized homoerotic ideal of the male aristocracy 'worshipped' at their symposia. The development of the male love-god is taken as an example to demonstrate that poets' artistic innovation as well as their social and historical background played an important role in creating Greek mythology.
Author: Robert E. Meagher
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0865165106
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Author: Monica S. Cyrino
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-06-25
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1136615911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emerges from the imaginations of the ancient Greek writers and artists as a multifaceted, powerful and charismatic figure. This volume explores the importance of Aphrodite for the ancient Greeks, as well as her enduring influence as a symbol of beauty, adornment, love and sexuality in contemporary culture. In a wide-ranging investigation of the universality of Aphrodite’s power and significance, this volume illuminates the numerous intricate levels of divinity embodied by the alluring figure of Aphrodite. Aphrodite offers new insights into the ancient texts and artistic representations of the goddess, as well as a comprehensive survey of the current scholarship about the origins and interpretations of Aphrodite, whilst also highlighting her eternal popular appeal across cultures and generations. A goddess of love who is not afraid to enter the battlefield; a goddess of bodily adornment who is the first to appear totally nude; a goddess born of the sea who emerges into the open sky: Aphrodite is a polyvalent deity, plural in nature, function and significance.
Author: Adrian Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1108480241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.