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Title Venus & Aphrodite : history of a goddess / Bettany Hughes
Imprint London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019
©2019

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Religion  292 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xiii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, portraits 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234) and index
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's origins in powerful ancient deities, Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than first meets the eye. Beginning in Cyprus, the goddess's mythical birthplace, Bettany decodes Venus's relationship to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and, in turn, Aphrodite's mixed-up origins both as a Cypriot spirit of fertility and procreation - but also, as a descendant of the prehistoric war goddesses of the Near and Middle East, Ishtar, Inanna and Astarte. On a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind Venus, Hughes reveals how this mythological figure is so much more than nudity, romance and sex. It is the both the remarkable story of one of antiquity's most potent forces, and the story of human desire - how it transforms who we are and how we behave
Content A birth -- Fornicating & fighting -- Party queen -- A working goddess & working girls -- Ta Aphrodisia -- the things of sex -- Manikos Eros -- Venus & Empire without limits -- Eastern queen -- Venus in middle age -- A humanist muse -- Venus at the box office -- A very modern goddess -- Conclusion
Subject Afrodite (grekisk gudinna)
Venus (romersk gudinna)
Goddesses, Greek -- History
Goddesses, Roman -- History
Grekiska gudinnor -- historia
Romerska gudinnor -- historia
History.
Classmark 292.2114
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ISBN/ISSN 9781474610360 hardback
1474610366 hardback
9781474610391 (ebook)
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