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Pages in category "Epithets of Aphrodite" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acraea; Amathusia;
Epithets of Aphrodite (17 P) Epithets of Apollo (70 P) Epithets of Ares (4 P) Epithets of Artemis (1 C, 30 P) Epithets of Asclepius (5 P) Epithets of Athena (1 C, 31 ...
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Common literary epithets of Aphrodite are Cypris and Cythereia, [69] which derive from her associations with the islands of Cyprus and Cythera respectively. [69] On Cyprus, Aphrodite was sometimes called Eleemon ("the merciful"). [57] In Athens, she was known as Aphrodite en kēpois ("Aphrodite of the Gardens"). [57]
Epithets of Aphrodite (17 P) T. Temples of Aphrodite (1 C, 12 P) V. Venus (mythology) (2 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Aphrodite" The following 30 pages are in this ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Statue of the so-called 'Aphrodite on a tortoise', 430–420 BCE, Athens [a]Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her ...
Pages in category "Greek epithets" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anthropotokos; C.