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Aphrodite appears in Richard Garnett's short story collection The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales (1888), [306] in which the gods' temples have been destroyed by Christians. [307] Stories revolving around sculptures of Aphrodite were common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [ 308 ]
"Coming, Eden Bower!" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Smart Set in August 1920, [1] and it was republished in Youth and the Bright Medusa under the title of Coming, Aphrodite, with minor alterations. [1]
The Weasel and Aphrodite [a] (Ancient Greek: Γαλῆ καὶ Ἀφροδίτη, romanized: Galê kaì Aphrodítē), also known as Venus and the Cat is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 50 in the Perry Index. A fable on the cynic theme of the constancy of one's nature, it serves as a cautionary tale against trusting those with evil temper, for ...
The story is the basis of an earlier opera, Il pomo d'oro, in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti, with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611–1668). Aphrodite taunts Hera and Athena with the Apple, relief in the Achilleion, Corfu.
The story also provides an etiology for Aphrodite's associations with certain flowers. [41] Reportedly, as she mourned Adonis's death, she caused anemones to grow wherever his blood fell, [32] [41] and declared a festival on the anniversary of his death. [32] In one late account, his blood transformed into roses instead. [43]
Aphrodite's winged little son Eros, the god of romantic love, is similarly trying to assist his mother fight off her assaulter by grasping Pan's right horn and pushing him away. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Pan leans on a tree trunk (the statue's marble support) covered with animal's skin, and has left his hunting stick at the foot of the trunk. [ 1 ]
The story of Phryne bathing at Eleusis, which according to Athenaeus inspired Apelles to paint the Aphrodite Anadyomene, was also a subject for nineteenth century painters. In Britain, Frederic Leighton and Edward Burne-Jones both painted works on this theme in the 1880s, but the most famous nineteenth century painting of the subject was Henryk ...
Aphrodite, the subject of Sappho's poem. This marble sculpture is a Roman copy of Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos.. The poem is written in Aeolic Greek and set in Sapphic stanzas, a meter named after Sappho, in which three longer lines of the same length are followed by a fourth, shorter one. [15]