CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... goddess , both as the Syrian Goddess and as 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 ...
... goddess , both as the Syrian Goddess and as 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 ...
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... goddess ' confidence and she seriously considered marrying him . This prospect so disturbed Apollo that he found a way of disposing of the suitor . One day as he and his sister were hunting near the shore , he noticed Orion swimming far ...
... goddess ' confidence and she seriously considered marrying him . This prospect so disturbed Apollo that he found a way of disposing of the suitor . One day as he and his sister were hunting near the shore , he noticed Orion swimming far ...
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... goddess of marriage and the wife of Jupiter . Like the Greek goddess HERA , with whom the Romans early identified Juno , she was the patroness of women and governed all their concerns from birth to death . As goddess of childbirth she ...
... goddess of marriage and the wife of Jupiter . Like the Greek goddess HERA , with whom the Romans early identified Juno , she was the patroness of women and governed all their concerns from birth to death . As goddess of childbirth she ...
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