APHRODITE / APHRODISIAC

“The goddess of sexual love”; a.k.a. Venus / venereal (the Roman parallel)

(Greek: Αφροδίτη / αφροδισι…)

A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect, Cunliffe, 1963, p. 65, “Αφροδίτη”:

(Homer flourished 9th or 8th century BC.)

http://www.goddess.ws/aphrodite.html, APHRODITE Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty:

Ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified by the Romans with Venus.

Greek & Roman Mythology, Couch, 1997, p. 57, “Aphrodite”:

What Life Was Like at the Dawn of Democracy: Classical Athens 525-322 BC, Time-Life Books, 1997, p. 134, “Glossary”:

Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World, Jordan, 1993, p. 308, “love and sex”:

http://www.pagan-heart.co.uk/godsandgoddesses.html, Pagan God’s and Goddesses, “Greek”:

Aphrodite: Goddess of passionate, sexual love.

http://www.btinternet.com/~orionmoon/Goddesses.htm, Pagan Goddesses:

Aphrodite: Greek; Goddess of passionate, sexual love. Aphrodite will assist you in pulling loving energy towards yourself.

http://www.scarletsbookofshadows.freewebspace.com/whats_new.html, Gods and Goddesses, “Goddesses”:

Aphrodite:She is a Greek Goddess of passionate sexual love.

http://www.meta-religion.com/Spiritualism/Wicca/goddesses_and_gods.htm, Goddesses And Gods, “Goddesses”:

Aphrodite: Greek; Goddess of passionate, sexual love. Aphrodite will assist you in pulling loving energy towards yourself.

http://www.avalonmoononline.com/ED.goddess.htm, Earth Dance, “Gods and Goddesses”:

Aphrodite

Greek

Goddess of passion and love

http://www.schools.ash.org.au/elanorah/gaphrod.htm, Aphrodite:

She was the patroness of physical love.

http://nasa.utep.edu/westch/reading/guide.html, Guide to the Greek Gods, “Aphrodite (Venus)”:

Goddess of love, physical beauty.

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blgrk_aphrodite01.htm, Aphrodite and Eros:

Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, beauty, fertility, procreation, sexuality, seduction, and harmony.

http://www.eskimo.com/~elladan/gods/description.html, Table of Gods:

Aphrodite

Greek

A goddess of desire, fertility & sexual love & beauty

…

Aphrodite Pandemos

Greek

A goddess of sex likely conflated with Aphrodite

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0205.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia), A Plea for the Christians: By Athenagoras the Athenian: Philosopher and Christian (c. 133-190 AD), “Chapter 22. Pretended Symbolical Explanations”:

But to those who say that Kronos is time, and Rhea the earth, and that she becomes pregnant by Kronos, and brings forth, whence she is regarded as the mother of all; and that he begets and devours his offspring; and that the mutilation is the intercourse of the male with the female, which cuts off the seed and casts it into the womb, and generates a human being, who has in himself the sexual desire, which is Aphrodité;

A bi-sexual note to Aphrodite:

Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace, Bishop / Osthelder, 2001, p. 216, “Hermaphroditus”:

Aphrodisiac:

Microsoft Encarta Dictionary (paperback), 2002, p. 35, “aphrodisiac”:

Word Origins: An Exploration and History of Words and Language, Funk, 1950, p. 244, “Terms of Science, and the Professions”:

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Onions, 1966, p. 42, “aphrodisiac”:

The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged), 1987, p. 98:

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary, 1993, p. 28, “aphrodisiac”:

The American Heritage College Dictionary, 1997, p. 63, “aphrodisiac”:

A Browser’s Dictionary, Ciardi, 1980, p. 9, “aphrodisiac”:

Webster’s Word Histories, Merriam-Webster, 1989, p. 20, “aphrodisiac”:

Work Origins and Their Romantic Stories, Funk, 1978, p. 244, “ZODIAC”:

http://www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/a.html, An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology, “aphrodisiac”:

aphrodisiac n

[Gk aphrodisiakos sexual, fr. aphrodisia, pl. sexual pleasures, fr. neut. pl. of aphrodisios of Aphrodite, fr. Aphrodite Greek goddess of love] 1 : an agent that arouses or is held to arouse sexual desire 2 : something that excites

Name into Word: Proper Names That Have Become Common Property: A Discursive Dictionary, Partridge, 1950, p. 17, “aphrodisiac; Aphrodite”:

Pp. 150-151, “Eros; erotic, eroticism”:

A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson, 1755, no page numbers, “Aphrodisiacal | Aphrodisiack”:

Translated from Elizabethan English:

Relating to the venereal disease (a sexually transmitted disease).

A Greek-English Lexicon with a Revised Supplement (unabridged), Liddell & Scott, Oxford, 1996 (first edition 1843), p. 293:

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΟΑΓΓΛΙΚΟΝ ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ (Most Excellent Greek-English Dictionary), Michigan Press, 1969, Vol. A, p. 130, “αφροδι…”:

Oxford Greek-English Learner’s Dictionary, Stavropoulos, 1988, p. 149:

The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary, Pring, 1995, p. 32 (Greek-English), “αφροδι…”:

Venus (the Roman / Latin parallel):

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1992, p. 1982, “Venus”:

Cliffs Notes on Mythology, 1973, p. 137, “Venus”:

Oxford Latin Dictionary, Glare, 1982, p. 2032, “Venus”:

The Oxford Latin Minidictionary, Morwood, 1995, p. 280 (Latin-English), “Venus”:

A Smaller Latin-English Dictionary, William Smith, 1879, p. 603, “vĕnus”:

Webster’s Universal Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged), 1909, p. 1860, “Vēnus”:

Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Symbols, Attributes & Associations, Bell, 1982, p. 153, “VENUS”:

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?Venus (Latin-English translator), “Venus”:

Venus, Veneris  N (3rd) F   [XEIAO]

Venus, Roman goddess of sexual love and generation; planet Venus; charm/grace;

sexual activity/appetite/intercourse; [~ tali => best dice throw];

The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Barbara G. Walker, 1988, p. 225, “Venus”:

The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Traupman, 1966, p. 328 (Latin-English), “Venus”:

Collins Latin Gem Dictionary, Kidd, 1957, p. 354 (Latin-English), “ve´n/us”:

Bibliotheca Classica; or, A Classical Dictionary, containing A full Account of all the Proper Names, Lemprière, 1788, (no page numbers), “Aphrodisia”:

Translated: Venus arose from the sea, the Φαλλος[Phallus: a penis], because she is the goddess of wantonness.

Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace, Bishop / Osthelder, 2001, p. 39, “A Man’s Sex Organs | The Phallic Symbol”:

The “phallic symbol” is the penis.

The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged), 1987, p. 2112, “Venus”:

Cassell’s Latin Dictionary, Simpson, 1968, p. 635 (Latin-English), “vĕnŭs”:

Oxford Universal English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1937, vol. 10, p. 2345, “Venus”:

Harpers’ Latin Dictionary, Lewis / Short, 1879, p. 1970, “vēnum-do or vēnun-do | Vĕnus | Vĕnĕrĕus of Vĕnĕrĭus”:

Rawson’s Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk, 1995, pp. 445-446, “Venusian”:

Venus represents sex:

Dictionary of Sexual Slang, Richter, 1993, p. 232, “Venus”:

Art:

http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/S10.1.html, “S10.1 APHRODITE ‘VENUS GENETRIX’”:

Original / Copy: Roman copy of Greek statue attributed to Callimachus C5th BC
Style: Late Classical
Date: C2nd AD
Period: Imperial Roman

SUMMARY

Aphrodite stands with one breast exposed, lifting her robe with one hand and presenting an apple with the other.

http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/hellsculpt.html, Archaeological Museum of Rethymnon:

Marble statue of Aphrodite. Roman copy of a Greek original, found at Argyroupolis. Dated to the 1st century A.D.

http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculpture/aphrodite.html, Aphrodite:

Aphrodite      Venus Genetrix     Greek, last half of 5th century B.C.)      The Louvre, Paris

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000Ares/source/7.html, Ares Album 7/9:

7120: Mars and Venus. Pompei, casa dell'Amore punito.  To show how sexual Aphrodite/Venus was.

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # MI001584, Ancient Roman Fresco Painting of Venus and Mars with Onlookers, before 79 A.D.:

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