CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... Aphrodite . A goddess of erotic love , identified by the Romans with Venus . A. There are two principal accounts of Aphrodite's birth . According to Homer , she was a daughter of Zeus and Dione , but Hesiod declared that she had sprung ...
... Aphrodite . A goddess of erotic love , identified by the Romans with Venus . A. There are two principal accounts of Aphrodite's birth . According to Homer , she was a daughter of Zeus and Dione , but Hesiod declared that she had sprung ...
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EDWARD TRIPP. APHRODITE mitted the quarrel to the Muse Calliope for arbitration . Calliope decreed that Adonis , now a handsome youth , should spend a part of the year with each goddess . Aphrodite punished Calliope's fair - mindedness ...
EDWARD TRIPP. APHRODITE mitted the quarrel to the Muse Calliope for arbitration . Calliope decreed that Adonis , now a handsome youth , should spend a part of the year with each goddess . Aphrodite punished Calliope's fair - mindedness ...
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... Aphrodite . The Greeks had always known that Aphrodite was an Asiatic goddess . Herodotus stated that the oldest shrine of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ) was in the Phoenician city of Ascalon and that her worship had spread ...
... Aphrodite . The Greeks had always known that Aphrodite was an Asiatic goddess . Herodotus stated that the oldest shrine of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ) was in the Phoenician city of Ascalon and that her worship had spread ...
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