CLASS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Aphrodite Pandemos, Aphrodite Urania, Cinyras
15 Mar 2014
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Aphrodite roman name: venus place: cythera, cyprus crucial distinction: Aphrodite urania - the aphrodite born from the foam after uranus is castrated and his balls thrown in the ocean. this is the. Aphrodite pandemos - this one sprung from zeus and dione, and it is the physical satisfaction goddess, profane love, aphrodite of. All the people, or common aphrodite. also called cytherea, for her city. goddess of beauty, love, and marriage. worshipped universally in the ancient world, but differently in different places. Fertility god, son of aphrodite with questionable fatherhood. Depicted as deformed and bearing a huge and erect phallus. Found in gardens and at the doors of houses. Part scarcrow, part bringer of luck, part guardian against thieves, so he has something in common with hermes. Pygmalion a man named pygmalion makes a statue of a woman he names. Myrrha falls in love with her own father. her maid helps her seduce him.
