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Aphrodite

Aphrodite. (left) Capitoline Venus after Aphrodite of Cnidus, 2 nd century AD (right) Medici Venus. Birth. Aphrodite Urania Aphrodite Pandemos Pan= all Demos= the people. Aphrodite/Venus. Realm: beauty, love, pleasure, procreation Animal: dove Plant: apple, myrtle

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Aphrodite

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  1. Aphrodite (left) Capitoline Venus after Aphrodite of Cnidus, 2nd century AD (right) Medici Venus

  2. Birth • Aphrodite Urania • Aphrodite Pandemos • Pan= all • Demos= the people

  3. Aphrodite/Venus • Realm: beauty, love, pleasure, procreation • Animal: dove • Plant: apple, myrtle • Symbols: shell, mirror • Epithet: • Sacred Places: Cythera, Cypress • Depiction: beautiful woman, nude, Eros Venus de Milo, 2nd century BC

  4. Toiletof Venus. Simon Vouet, 1628-39. 

  5. The Graces/Charites The Three Graces, Roman fresco from PompeiiC1st A.D Three Graces, Borghese Collection, The Louvre

  6. Astarte • Astarte is the Greek name of the Mesopotamian Semitic goddess Ishtar • Fertility, sexuality, war • Lion, horse, sphinx • Came to Greece via Cyprus and Cythera

  7. Priapus Phallic tintinnabula (windchime) The god Priapus,, Roman fresco from PompeiiC1st A.D

  8. Pygmalion and Galatea Left- The Hand Refrains. The Pygmalion Series. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1868-70.; right- The Godhead Fires. The Pygmalion Series. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1868-70

  9. Pygmalion and Galatea. Jean-Leon Gerome. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

  10. Adonis Birth of Adonis from Myrrha.  Pygmalion-Galatea | Paphos | Cinyras | Myrrha Venus and Adonis. Veronese.

  11. Dying God Archetype • Virgin mother, unusual birth • Tree involved • Descent into earth • Scapegoat • Young male figure of fertility • Rebirth

  12. Adonis The Death of Adonis, Rodin, 1888

  13. Cybele and AttisTaurobolium Terracotta antefixes from Ostia with depictions of the Magna Mater on the ship. Roman Imperial Attis wearing a Phrygian cap and performing a cult dance Cybele enthroned, with lion,cornucopia and Mural crown. Roman marble, c. 50 CE. Getty Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2UJiZkLjs

  14. Cybele/Magna Mater • Galli • Eunuchs • In Rome • Magna Mater • Second Punic War (218-201BC) • Claudia Quinta • Temple on Palatine hill • Holy Week

  15. Aphrodite and Anchises Venus and Anchises, Farnese Palace

  16. Eros Amor Vincit Omnia, Caravaggio, 1601

  17. Plato’s Symposium

  18. Cupid and Psyche Cupid and Psyche, David, 1817

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