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Aphrodite Learn the history, the goddess of love, greek mythology




Learn the history of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, greek mythology, Greek goddess 
Aphrodite: Goddess of Love 
Aphrodite Sculpture: goddess of love, sex and body beauty 
Why the apostle Paul said that women should be silent in the churches? 
. The passage where the apostle Paul says that "women keep silence in the churches," is one Coríntios14: 34, which says: " Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted to speak; but be in subjection , as also saith the law. saith the law. " 

The apostle Paul was not being sexist in this situation.
What happened was this: Corinth was a port city, and so people came from all mundo.Juntamente places with people, came their beliefs religiosas.Devido this reason, there was at Corinth, temples in honor of many gods, including the Temple of Aphrodite ... the cult of this supposed "goddess" involved sex (cultic prostitution) .There was around 1000 cult prostitutes in Corinth at the time ... this prostitution "cultic" generated much profit in época.A cult prostitute, to differentiate the good woman, was the following: shaved your hair, so all they saw a woman with cropped hair, he would know that it was a cult prostitute was Afrodite.Esta a way to identify them.
Because this "cultic prostitution" give much profit at the time, then, women had a say in gatherings and public assemblies, on an equal footing with men. 


NOT ALLOW THESE "prostitutes cult" would encourage people to worship APHRODITE, IN CHURCHES, THEN THE APOSTLE PAUL ORDERED THAT WOMEN remain silent in the Church, THEREFORE THIS WAY, THE APHRODITE priestesses NOT WOULD LIKE TOENCOURAGE WORSHIP A APHRODITE CHURCHES WITHIN ... 


THIS WAS THE REASON WHAT PAUL SAID THAT WOMEN SHOULD remain silent IN CHURCHES ... THIS iS SOMETHING THAT HAD ONLY VALID FOR SEASON IN CORINTH CITY, BECAUSE THE REASON FOREGOING. 


1 Corinthians 14:34 is not valid for today because we do not live this reality in Corinth at the time ... So, the attitude of the apostle Paul was not sexist in nature but aimed to preserve the worship of the one true God and not .permitir that the worship of the true God were spotted by the cult of Aphrodite, within the churches. I hope you enjoyed this brief explanation. 
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.Introduction 
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was the goddess of love, beauty body and sex. For the Greeks, it had a strong influence on the development and sexual pleasure of the people. It was also considered the patron goddess of prostitutes in ancient Greece. It was worshiped in the cities of Sparta, Athens and Corinth. Birth and relationships According to mythology, Aphrodite was born in Cyprus. Daughter of Zeus (God of gods) and Dione (goddess of nymphs), married to Hephaestus (god of fire). However, according to their wants and desires, he owned several lovers (mortal men and other gods). She came to have a son, Aeneas (important hero of the Trojan War) with Anquises lover. Main sons of Aphrodite: With Hermes (messenger god) had the son Hermaphrodite.

With Ares (god of war) had the children Eros (god of passion and love) and Anteros (god of order). 
With Apollo (god of light, healing and disease) had the son Hymen (wedding god). 
With Dionysus (god of pleasure, parties and wine) was the son Priapus (fertility god). Curiosities: In Roman mythology, × Aphrodite was called Venus. This goddess inspired many artists (painters and sculptors), especially at the time of the Cultural Renaissance. One of the best known works is "The Birth of Venus" of the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli..Mitologia Greek

Characteristics of Greek Mythology, main myths and legends, Greek gods, Minotaur, Medusa, Hercules, the influence of religion in political, economic and social life of the Greek Minotaur - Greek history and mythology Introduction The Greeks created many myths to be able to pass messages to the people and also in order to preserve the historical memory of its people. Three thousand years ago, there were no scientific explanations for most of the phenomena of nature or historical events. Therefore, to find a meaning for the political, economic and social facts, the Greeks created a series of stories, imaginative origin, which were transmitted mainly through oral literature.

 Most of these legends and myths come down to the present day and are important sources of information for understanding the history of the civilization of ancient Greece. Stories are very rich in psychological data, economic, material, artistic, political and cultural. Understanding Greek Mythology.

Powered By Brapp × The ancient Greeks could see life in almost everything around them, and sought explanations for everything. The fertile imagination of this people created characters and mythological figures from the most diverse. Heroes, gods, nymphs, centaurs and titans inhabited the material world, influencing their lives. It was enough to read the signs of nature, in order to accomplish their goals. The Pythia, a kind of priestess, was an important character in this context. The Greeks consulted their oracles in to learn about the things that were happening and also about the future. Almost always, the Pythia sought mythological explanations for these events. Please a deity was an essential condition to achieve good results in material life. A trade worker, for example, should let god Hermes always satisfied,

The main mythological beings of Ancient × were: - Heroes: mortal beings, sons of gods with human beings. Examples: Heracles or Hercules and Achilles. - Nymphs: female beings who inhabited the fields and woods, bringing joy and happiness. - Satyrs: figure with a human body, horns and goat legs. 

- Centaurs: Body formed by a half man and one horse. 
- Sirens: women with half of the fish body, lured sailors with their attractive corners. 
- Gorgons: women, species of monsters with snakes for hair. Example: jellyfish 
- Chimera: mixture of lion and goat breathed fire nostrils. Medusa Medusa: woman with snakes on her head The Minotaur

It is one of the most popular myths and has been movie theme, cartoons, plays, games etc. This monster had a man's body and bull's head. Strong and fierce, she inhabited a labyrinth on Crete. Fed up of seven boys and seven Greek girls, which should be sent by the king to the Aegean King Minos, who sent them to the maze. Many Greeks tried to kill the Minotaur, but ended up getting lost in the maze or killed by the monster. One day the king × Aegean decided to send to the island of Crete × his son, Theseus, which should kill the Minotaur. Theseus received the daughter of the king of Crete, Ariadne, a ball of wool and a sword. The hero entered the labyrinth and killed the Minotaur with a sword and left using wire wool that had marked the entire journey. Greek gods

According to the Greeks, the gods inhabited the top of Mount Olympus, the main mountain × old. From this site, commanded work and social and political relations of human beings. The Greek gods were immortal, but had human characteristics. Jealousy, envy, betrayal and violence were also found in the characteristics × Olympus. Often they fall in love with mortals, and ended up having children with them. From this union between gods and mortals emerged the heroes. Meet the main Greek gods: Zeus - god of all gods, the Lord of Heaven. Aphrodite - the goddess of love, sex and beauty. Poseidon - god of the seas Hades - God of the souls of the dead, cemeteries and underground. Hera - the goddess of marriage and motherhood.

Apollo - god of light and works of art. 
Artemis - goddess of hunting and wildlife. 
Ares - god of war. 
Athena - goddess of wisdom and serenity. Protector of the city of Athens. 
Kronos - god of agriculture which also symbolized the time. 
Hermes - messenger of the gods, represented the trade and communications. 
Hephaestus - god of fire and work.
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Birth
fertility and fertilizers waters ×Astarté. In the Iliad, the goddess is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, hence the epithet ×Venus Flytrap. There is however a ×much older Aphrodite, whose birth is described in × Theogony consonants the subject of oriental origin of the mutilation × Uranus. With the epithet Anadyomene, namely, "that shows" the waves of the sea, of a famous painting of the great Greek painter Apelles (Sec. IV and c) as soon as he was born, the goddess was carried by waves or wind ×Zephyr to Cythera and then to × Cyprus, Give her two other epithets Citeréia and Cípris. This double origin of the goddess of love is no stranger to the differentiation established between Aphrodite Urania and pandemic, meaning the latter, etymologically, "the revered" by all the people, "Pandemos, and later with philosophical discrimination  ered By Brapp×and moral, "a popular, vulgar". Plato, in× Banquet, establishes a clear distinction between the pandemic, inspiring the common loves, vulgar, carnal and Urania, the goddess who has no mother, (amétor) and, being Urânia is ipso facto Celeste, an ether inspiring love, top, immaterial, through which it reaches the highest love as× Diotima revealed Socrates. This "urânico love," turning off the beauty itself, which is a participant of the eternal.
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imported goddess - in Cyprus, it was received by the goddess × hours, dressed and decorated and then conducted to the mansion ×Olympic. Despite the efforts of mythographers, to Hellenize × Aphrodite, it is always betrayed its Asian origin. Indeed, × Hesíodo is not the only pattern that the eastern origins of god. In the Iliad the thing is very noticeable. His protection and preference for the Trojans and particularly by × Aeneas, the fruit of their loves with ×Anquises clearly denote that Aphrodite is the Greek less possible. In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite the Goddess Asian character is even clearer: in love with the Trojan hero × Anquises advances toward Troy in demand name × Ida, accompanied by bears, lions and panthers. Well, her voluptuous hierophany turns to the animals, which are gathered in the shade of the valleys, to join in the love that overflows with × Aphrodite. This loving march of the great goddess toward Ilium shows clearly that it is a × Mother of Mount Ida.

Among the Trojans, his great protected is Paris. And × Cíprios report as the goddess to reward him for him to have given him the title of the most beautiful of the goddesses, assisted in the sea journey to Sparta and in the abduction of Helena.

His divine lover × Adonis also brings us to Asia, as Adonis is mere transposition of Tammuz Babylonian, the favorite of Ishtar-Astarte, the Greeks modeled their × Aphrodite. As can be seen, from its birth to its characteristics and most important myths × Aphrodite points us to Asia. Goddess typically oriental, never fit well in the Greek myth, it seems strange in the nest.

Around the mother × Aeneas amalgaram myths from diverse backgrounds and that, therefore, they do not form a coherent account, but episodes and sometimes disconnected. The big wedding "Greek" the goddess of love with Hephaestus, the god of us, God blacksmith lame and the island of Lemnos. 

OsAmantesde Aphrodite
 - Ares, in extended absences from × Hephaestus, which had installed its forges the lot × Etna in Sicily, constantly shared the bed × Aphrodite. It made him quiet, because always left the door of the goddess rooms a watchman, a young man named ×Alectryon, which should warn him of the approach of daylight, ie birth × Sun, deep knowledge of all ills this world. One day, the tireless watchman slept and Helios, the sun, who sees everything and do not miss the time, surprised the lovers and warned × Hephaestus. This, God who knows binding and loosing, prepared a magical network and arrested the couple to the bed. He called the gods to witness the adultery and they had so much fun with the spicy situation, the sky reboava with laughter. After repeated requests of Poseidon, the lame god consented to remove the network. Embarrassed, Aphrodite and Ares fled to Cyprus to Thrace. These loves were born Phobos (fear), Deimos (terror) and Harmony, which was later wife × Cadmus, king of Thebes.


Regarding the preference of the goddess of love by the god of war, which betrays a appositorum complex, a combination of opposites, Hephaestus always attributed to being crippled and Ares being beautiful and perfect members. Of course, the god of forges could not understand that Aphrodite is primarily a goddess of vegetation, which needs to be fertilized, whatever seed origin and the identity of the fertilising. As for the young Aléction suffered exemplary punishment: for allowing, in his sleep, Helio denounced Hephaestus flagrant adultery, was metamorphosed into Galo (alektyón) in Greek is cock and forced to sing every morning, before the sun's birth.

Ares was not, however, the only extra-marital love Aphrodite. His passion for Adonis became famous. The myth, however, starts much further. Webs, King of Syria, had a daughter, Mirra or Smyrna, who, wishing to compete in beauty with the goddess of love, was by this terribly punished, conceiving a passion for incestuous father. With the help of her maid, Hippolyta, managed to fool webs joining him for twelve consecutive nights. In the final night, the king realized the deception and pursued her daughter with the intention of killing her. Mirra was placed under the protection of the gods, which made it the tree that bears his name. 

Months later, the bark of "myrrh" began to swell and in the tenth month opened, born Adonis. Touched by the beauty of the child, Aphrodite picked it up and secretly entrusted to Persephone. This, enchanted with the boy, refused to return it to the wife of Hephaestus. The fight between the two goddesses was refereed by Zeus and was stipulated that Adonis would spend a third of the year with Persephone, one with Aphrodite and the remaining four months he wanted. But in fact, the beautiful son of Mirra always spent eight months of the year with the goddess of love.

Later, it is not clear why the angry Artemis launched against adolescent Adonis the fury of a wild boar, which in the course of a hunt, killed him. At the request of Aphrodite, was his great love transformed by Zeus in anemone, spring flower, and even Zeus consented to the beautiful young risen four months a year and live next to the lover. Indeed, the past four months spring, anemone flower withers and dies. 

The myth, of course, relates to the symbolic rites of vegetation, as evidenced by the struggle for child between Aphrodite (the "life" of the plant) and Persephone ( "death" of the same in land bowels), and the ritual sense of Adonis Gardens, There is a variant of the myth that makes Adonis son not webs, but the king of Cyprus, who was of Phoenician origin, cinyras, married to Cenchrea. This seriously offended Aphrodite, saying his daughter Mirra was more beautiful than the goddess, which aroused rival in a violent passion for her father.

 Terrified of the incestuous nature of his passion. Mirra wanted to hang himself, but the nurse Hippolyta intervened and facilitated the satisfaction of the criminal love. Consummated incest, daughter and lover cinyras took refuge in the forest, but Aphrodite, sympathized with the suffering of the young princess, metamorphosed in the myrrh tree. It was the king himself who opened the tree bark to remove from there the son and grandson or, according to others, would have been a boar with his powerful teeth, shattered myrrh, to give birth to the child.  In this variant there are two causes for the death of Adonis: or God's wrath Ares, jealous of the predilection of Aphrodite by oriental young or Apollo's revenge on the goddess, which would have blinded the son Erimanto for Having seen her naked while bathing.

In any case, the death of Adonis, oriental god of vegetation, seed cycle, dying and rising, hence its katabasis to be with Persephone and Anabasis consequent seeking Aphrodite, was solemnly celebrated in the West and the East.  In Greece the Hellenistic era would lie dead Adonis in a silver bed, covered in purple. The sacred offerings were fruits, roses, anemones, perfumes and foliage, presented in silver baskets. They cried, sobbed and descabelavam up women. The next day threw him into the sea with all the offerings. Echoed this done, glad songs, as Adonis, with the rains next season, should be resurrected.

It was precisely to perpetuate the memory of his great oriental love, Aphrodite instituted in Syria a funeral party, women celebrated annually in the spring of entry. To symbolize "as little" who lived Adonis, rose bushes seedlings are planted in pots and boxes and sprinkled them with warm water, to grow faster.
The Aphrodite loves not end in Adonis. Disguised the daughter of Otreu king of Phrygia, passionately loved the Trojan hero Anchises when he was herding his flocks on Mount Ida of Tróada. This link was born Aeneas, the goddess both protected during the siege of Ilium by the Greeks, as evidenced in the Iliad. Much later, from first to twelfth corner of the Aeneid of Virgil, Aeneas had it again for shell and compass. Is this Aeneas, let us say in passing that through Iulus, son of the Trojan hero, intended to descend the gens iulia ,, the family of the Julii, as Caesar and Octavian, the future emperor Augustus.


 False etymological approaches have generated many gods, heroes and emperors.
From his union with Hermes he was born Hermaphrodite, etymologically (son) of Hermes and Aphrodite. Created by the nymphs of Mount Ida, the young man was of extraordinary beauty. As great as the Narcissus.
With its eternally unsatisfied "energeia" erotic Aphrodite still loved the god of ecstasy and enthusiasm. From their union with Dionysus was born the great deity of the Asian city of Lampsacus, Priapus. It is a ithyphallic god, guardian vines and gardens. Its essential attribute was "diverting" the evil eye and protect crops against the charms of those who wished to destroy them. God of apotropaic powers, has always been considered an excellent example of sympathetic magic, both "homeopathic", by the law of similarity, as by "contagion by contact law in defense of vineyards, orchards and gardens, whose entrance appeared his statue.


They were also celebrated in mythology hateful outbursts and Aphrodite curses. When it came to satisfy his whims or revenge for an offense, made love a weapon and a deadly poison. Simply by Eos to have fallen in love with Ares, the made her goddess fall in love violently by Orion giant, about to snatch it and hide it with great displeasure of the gods, as the giant, as Heracles , cleared the fields and cities of beasts and monsters. The young Hippolytus, who despised his worship to have been dedicated to Artemis, was terribly punished. Inspired Phaedra, his stepmother, an uncontrollable passion for stepson. 

Repelled by this, Phaedra killed herself, but left a liar message to Theseus, her husband, and father of Hippolytus, accusing the latter of trying to rape her, which explained his suicide. Unaware of the innocence of the child, Theseus expelled him from home and invoked against him the wrath of Poseidon. God sent Hipólito against a sea monster that you frightened the horses of fast carriage and the young, having fallen, was dragged and died shattered.
severely punished all women of the island of Lemnos, why they refused to serve him. He punished them with an odor so unbearable, that spouses abandoned them by slaves from Thrace.
The own Helena, who, by cunning goddess and to reward Paris, fled with her to Troy, deplored as if it were a "to" insane, one of the reason blindness, love to infuse her Aphrodite and made her leave the country and the gods.
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Sacred prostitutes - To this divinity of pleasure for pleasure, the universal love that circulates in the log veins creatures, because, first of all, Aphrodite is the goddess of the "seeds" of vegetation, were linked to the eastern way, The hierodulas célebrese, the improperly called sacred prostitutes. These true priestesses gave themselves in the temples of the goddess to visitors, with the aim, first to promote and cause vegetation and then to raise money for the temples themselves. In rich (thanks to hierodulas) Aphrodite shrine in erix lot in Sicily, and Craníon in cypress groves of a famous Gymnasium, called Craníon, the goddess was surrounded by more than a thousand hierodulas, at the expense of visitors, They enriched the sanctuary. 

Main characters of the famous Corinthian Aphrodisias, every night they took to the streets in joyful processions and ritual processions. Although some comic poets, like Alexis and Eubulo, both of the fourth century BCE, had written about it some malicious verses in serious and serious moments, as in the Persian invasions of Darius (490 BCE) and Xerxes (480 BCE), was asked hierodulas that the youngest public prayers to Aphrodite. Pindar, perhaps the most religious of the Greek poets, celebrated with a (Skolion), that is, with a convivial song, a large number of young people who hierodulas Corinthian Xenophon has offered to Aphrodite, in thanks for a double victory at the Olympics.

In Athens, one of the epithets of the goddess was (hetaira) hetera "companion, lovers, courtesan, concubine", made abstraction of any prostitute connotation. This epithet is certainly due to another of Aphrodite, the pandemic.
Aphrodite is the symbol of the unstoppable forces of fertility, not exactly in its fruits, but due to the burning desire that the same irresistible forces they set fire in the bowels of all creatures. Behold the reason why the goddess is often represented among wild animals, the escort.
The Love Goddess myth could thus remain for a long time yet the image of a perversion, a perversion of the joy of living and vital forces, not because the desire to transmit life was jettisoned from the act of love, but because love itself would not be humanized. Remain just as satisfaction of the instincts, worthy of wild animals that formed the courts of the goddess. At the end of such a development, however, could reappear as Aphrodite the goddess who sublimates wild love, integrating it into a truly human life.
The Birth of Aphrodite - From the sea foam, impregnated by Uranus blood (Heaven) was born a girl taken first to the island of Kythira and then to Cyprus. Goddess lovely, not long in along the coast, and the flowers were born under their delicate feet. Called Aphrodite (Aphrodite), or Citeréia, the island's name that landed, or Cipris, the island's name is honored. At least, this is the most widespread tradition, for some different legends came to be confused in Aphrodite sometimes appears as a daughter of Zeus and Dione.
In old paintings, Aphrodite is often depicted lying on a simple shell; in the currencies, we see it in a cart pulled by Tritons and the Tritônidas. Finally, numerous bas-reliefs in her present then hippocampi or marine centaurs. In the eighteenth century, the French painters, and notably Boucher saw the birth of Aphrodite an infinitely graceful and useful theme to the decor. A multitude of small Eros hovers in the air or escort the goddess. Incidentally, the French painters followed, at that point, the drinks traditions in Italy.
Conforming to the narration of the poet, the goddess Albane placed on a carriage pulled by sea horses. So she will have to Kythira where Peitho waiting (Persuasion), which, at the margin, extends his arms to the young traveler. Eros is sitting near the sea; and loves the Nereidas mounted on dolphins forming the procession of god. Amores cheerful celebrate the arrival of Aphrodite, and other flutter in the air seeding flowers in the passage, part of the museum of Vienna, Reuben painted Afrotite party in Kythira. Nymphs, satyrs and fauns dancing around his statue while Amores intertwine garlands of flowers and fill the air of cheerful cadences. In the background, the painter showed the temple of the goddess.
Aphrodite's atavio is a theme that art and poetry fixed well. While the hours were entrusted with the goddess of education, the Graces presided over the care of their atavio. A multitude of frames reproduced so lovely scene, and the painters did not fail to add all the details that suggested their imagination. When Boucher died, I had a picture on the easel representing atavio Aphrodite. Prudhon painted Aphrodite extended an old bed and served by Amores that perfume her hair, extend you a mirror, burn perfume around the goddess, bring you jewels and intertwine her flower garlands. Rubens also brings into play Eros holding a mirror in which the mother tape; unfortunately, it is an old s arranging her hair. The slow and wrinkled old age should never come close to Aphrodite.
Albane. which is far from being an artist of the first order, is, however, what most resembles, by the nature of his compositions, the graceful fictions of antiquity about Aphrodite. Aphrodite's Atavio painting which unfortunately dark, is perhaps his masterpiece as mythological conception. A terrace by the sea, Aphrodite features in a mirror Eros presents him as the Graces perfume her beautiful hair. and arrange the ornaments. In front of her is a source where one makes love to kill the seat two doves. An aerial palace, as befits Aphrodite, appears at the bottom of a tank, whereas in the clouds, winged Loves atrelam white swans to the gold car which will lead to the goddess ride, and fill the air of the melodious concerts.
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Type Aphrodite Attributes - "The Syrian cult of Astarte, says Ottfried Mueller, apparently finding in Greece some indigenous beginnings, have given birth to the celebrated cult and spread throughout Venus Aphrodite.
The fundamental idea of ​​the great goddess Nature, on which it rested, never entirely lost; the wet element that formed in the East reserved empire that deity continued to be subjected to the power of Venus Aphrodite in the back and in the ports that was worshiped; above the sea, the quiet and calm sea, the sky reflecting on wet mirror of the waves, it seemed, in the eyes of the Greeks, an expression of his divine nature. 

When art in Aphrodite cycle, left behind the coarse stones and reports idols of primitive worship, the idea of ​​a goddess whose power extends everywhere and to which no one can resist, cheered their creations; like he is to pose sitting on a throne, holding in his hands the symbolic signs of a nature full of youth and splendor of lush abundance; the goddess was entirely wrapped in the folds of his robe (the robe barely left her to show a part of the left breast) that were distinguished by elegance, for precisely the Aphrodite pictures, the elaborate grace of garments and movements seemed to belong to the character of goddess.

In the works of Phidias outputs school, or produced under the influence of this school, the art is in the feminine principle Aphrodite and the union of the sexes in all its holiness and greatness. It is seen there before, a lasting union formed for the purpose of the general good, and not an ephemeral approach that should end with sensual pleasures it provides. The new Attic art was the first that dealt with the Aphrodite theme with a purely sensuous enthusiasm, and deified in the figurative representations of the goddess, no longer just a power to which the whole world obeyed, but rather the individuality of female beauty. "
Aphrodite gives laws to heaven, the earth, the waves and all living creatures. "It was she who gave the germ of plants and trees, it was she who brought us together society ties the first men, fierce spirits and barbaric, it was she who taught each be joining a companion." It was she who in provided the numerous species of birds and the multiplication of herds. sheep furious fight, the chifradas with the ram. But fears hurt the sheep. the bull whose long mooing were echoing valleys and woods leaves the ferocity when he sees the heifer . the same power sustains everything that lives under the large seas and populates the fish waters and over. Aphrodite was the first to strip the men of fierce aspect to them was peculiar. Hers was that we came the atavio and care of one's body . " (Ovidio).
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Aphrodite and Aphrodite Celeste Vulgar - Pausanias, in his description of Thebes, says several statues of Aphrodite, the highest antiquity, as had been done with the wood of the ship Cadmus and consecrated by the very Harmony. . "The first, he says, is Aphrodite celestial, the second Aphrodite vulgar, and the third is called preserver was the very harmony which imposed them such names to distinguish these three species loves: a celestial, that is chaste, another vulgar, that is, attached to the body, the third cluttered, which leads men to incestuous unions and detestable. it was the preserver Aphrodite who addressed the prayers for the preservation of guilty desires. "  (Pausanius).



We have interesting example of this latter aspect of Aphrodite, a decision of the Roman Senate, which, according to the Sibylline books consulted by the decemvirs, had ordered the dedication of a statue of Venus vesticordia (convertedora) as a means of bringing the wanton girls modesty sex . (Valerius Maximum).
The turtle, women's chastity badge, was devoted to Aphrodite celestial, and the goat, symbol contrast, devoted to common Aphrodite. The images of the goddess, who were in all the houses, were, after all, accompanied by inscriptions indicating their character. Here is one that has come to us: "This Aphrodite is not the popular Aphrodite is the Aphrodite Urania The Crisógona caste put it in Amphicles house, who gave several children, moving pawns his tenderness and loyalty every year.. , the first care of these spouses is happy to rely on you, powerful goddess, and reward their piety, every year they bring more happiness. always thrive mortals who honor the gods. " (Theocritus).
Celestial Venus is characterized by wearing starring. We see it in a figurative Pompei paint which is shown standing with a head and a crown on the hand wand (Fig. 344). The famous sculptor Scopas made for the city of Elis vulgar Venus that had set sitting on a goat; similar figure is recorded in another stone old (Fig. 345). In the nineteenth century, the painter Gleyre composed a beautiful picture of the same theme. This Venus was especially honored at Corinth, maritime city that always made famous by courtesans.  Ali is living the famous Laish, around which we read the following epigram in the Anthology:. "I haughtily Laish who Greece was plaything, I who had the door a swarm of young lovers, consecrate to Venus this mirror, for I desire not to see me just like I am, and I can no longer see me as it was. "

Is in the same collection another passage even more interesting: "Minaret, that just stretched the threads of plot and constantly made resonate the shuttle Athena, just consecrate Aphrodite your basket work, their wool and their spindles, all their work tools, burning them on the altar: "perish, exclaimed, instruments that let starve poor women and murchais the beauty of youth!" Then he took crowns, a lute and began to bring joyful life . at parties and banquets "O Aphrodite, the goddess she says, I will bring you a tenth of my benefits:. provides me work in your interest and in mine" (Anthology).
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Aphrodite of Knidos - Originally, we had not the habit of representing Aphrodite, the instant it leaves the foam of the sea, that is, completely naked. Thus, it was the work of Praxiteles considered novelty, and the witness himself goddess, through the mouth of an ancient author, the astonishment at being so devoid of garments. "I showed myself to Paris, Anchises and Adonis is true, but where did Praxiteles see me?" (Anthology).
Pliny tells that Praxiteles, whom the inhabitants of Cos had ordered one Aphrodite, gave them to choose between two statues, one of which was dressed, while the other was bare. They preferred the first, and Praxiteles sold the second I take care of the inhabitants who welcomed the purchase, because it gained reputation and fortune to the country.

Aphrodite I take care seems to have been the type of most of the goddess statues, when it stood at birth.


The Zeus of Phidias and Praxiteles Aphrodite of Knidos by were considered in different genres, both products of the finest sculpture.Pliny said: "Of all the parts of the earth, it navigates toward Knidos, to contemplate the statue of Aphrodite." King Nicomedes cnidianos offered in exchange for the statue, all of their debts, which were important. They refused the offer, and rightly adds Pliny, for the masterpiece is the splendor of the city. A multitude of ancient writers left us signs of admiration that inspired them the masterpiece for which he made the following inscription: "When they saw the Aphrodite of Knidos, Athena and Hera said to each other:. Do not accuse Paris more"


In one of his dialogues, Luciano puts the following words into the mouth of one of the interlocutors: "After looking long and soon the plants and bushes that line the alleys of Knidos temple, entered, in the middle, stands the statue goddess, admirable work, performed in Paros marble, hovering on his lips a sweet smile; no wears her candle charms; it only hides with one hand, by a natural movement, which modesty does not allow to show or . either be named art made disappear the hardness of the material, in all parts of this beautiful body, the marble has the softness and tenderness of the meat. "

If so widely in extended on the Aphrodite of Cnidus is because this masterpiece that both haunted antiquity, and that no longer exists, served as a model to most naked Aphrodites of which so many reproductions facing us in museums. 

But the most important document that we know is the figure represented in the currencies of cnidianos, which reminded certissimamente, albeit with slight variations, the original statue. A Caracalla medallion coined in Knidos and a coin from the same town, where the goddess is attached to Aesculapius, the show a naked woman, slightly turning his head to one side, and holding in one hand a light vest raised up a vase. These two monuments were brought together in a finial of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin.

The artist has suspended the medallion above a table covered with flowers, stones, precious ornaments, differently shaped vessels and various instruments of the finest luxury. Wanted by such objects atavio, alluding to the famous courtesan Phryne which, it is claimed, he served as the model Praxiteles.

, It is understandable however that the engraving medal has several requirements of the sculpture, and it would be difficult to admit that a coin could be the literal reproduction a statue. Thus, the arm holding the garment above the vessel, the body produces a vacuum aceitabilíssimo clearance in bas-relief, but it would be unfortunate a statue. Furthermore, most of the statues that pass through imitation of Aphrodite of Knidos, we see the movement of the upper limbs substantially differ from what is offered by the coins: almost always one of the two arms are folded across his chest so that the hand is seen in front the breast.


In Aphrodite Capitol, for example, such movement is acentuadíssimo and perfume vessel covered with a cloth, which lies near the goddess, is completely separate from the arm but slightly closer to consolidate the statue. Among the very numerous statues that may relate to the same series, the most famous is the Aphrodite of Medici, located in the gallery of Florence Gallery. Here is the description that it was the Louvre's catalog, which figured for fifteen years: "The Goddess of Love has just emerged from the sea foam, where he was born, the virginal beauty appears in the enchanted margin Kythira without another veil that attitude of modesty. If you hair does not float on the divine shoulders, it is why the Time, with their heavenly hands, just get it to him (Homeric Hymn).


A dolphin and a shell are at your feet: are the symbols of the sea, christmas element of Venus. The two loves which crown is not the children of the goddess. One is the primitive love (Eros) that desemaranhou Chaos; the other is the desire (Himeros) that appeared in the world at the same time as the first to be sensitive.Both saw the birth and never parted her steps (theogony of Hesiod).Aphrodite de Medici has pierced ears, as has been observed in other statues of the same goddess; undoubtedly hung them splendid earrings. The preserved left arm aloft the obvious sign bracelet called spinther represented in sculpture in several of its images. An inscription placed on the plinth tells us that the author of Aphrodite de Medici is Cleomenes, Athenian, son of Apollodorus. "


Aphrodite is not always standing when out of the water, and a large number of statues ordinarily designated by the name of Venus crouching, gives us the goddess supporting one knee to the ground to make to rise. The Venus name in the bath also is assigned. When the goddess shakes wet hair, they call it Venus Anadyomene.Apelles made a Venus Anadyomene which old enough praised the beauty. The inhabitants of Cos demanded the like Venus, the same artist, but he died leaving the work incomplete.


The Apelles Venus was celebrated several times in the Anthology: "This Aphrodite, coming out of the womb of the waters, it is the work of Apelles brush see how, taking her hand to wet hair, squeeze the water Now the very Hera and.! Athena will say, "we do not want todispute you the beauty of the award," (Anthology). 


a bronze statue of Venus out of the sea and squeezing water from the hairs are found embedded passes under the theme of analogy , to be imitation of Venus painted by Apelles. Large number of monuments is Venus Anadyomene drifting on the water with his escort Fishman, of Nereids or marine centaurs.


A medal of Agrippina, minted in Corinth appears the goddess in a chariot pulled by a Triton brings a shell and a Nereida to play a bugle. A coin of brutianos shows her sitting in a hippocampus or seahorse: reaches out to Eros, that is over the animal 's tail and shoot an arrow. But among the representations of this genre, the most famous is an ancient bas-relief, a copy of which lies before us in various collections. Venus is supported on the water by marine centaurs: the Tritons are sounding the shells, the Amores and the Nereids happily around the goddess. One of the Nereids safe beside her, a mirror, another embraces Eros. 


Numerous pictures of past centuries represent Venus Anadyomene, and among them the most famous is that of Titian.
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Aphrodite Genitrix - Considered as a generator of mankind, Venus is always dressed. In. statues, the folds of his robe often indicate that is wet, and sometimes brings one of the uncovered breasts, being the universal nursing mother. Medals to show dressed and both breasts covered, but it is often accompanied by a boy: the goddess in this case is called Venus genitrix. We have in the Louvre a beautiful statue of Venus genitrix with an uncovered breast; moreover, the same type is almost identical in several museums.
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Aphrodite Victorious - Give up this name to Venus when she uses the weapons of Ares. Indeed, we see in several engraved stones, one of Venus figure holding in her hand a helmet. Sometimes it is still accompanied by a shield or trophies of arms. Other holds in one hand the helmet, and the other a palm. These figures show us always triumphant Venus against Ares, as a consequence of the same idea that gave birth to the legend of Heracles spinning at the feet of Onfales. It is always beauty to dominate the force.


The association of Ares and Venus is also set at two paintings of Herculaneum, where we face Amores preparing the throne of the two deities. A helmet is represented on the throne of Ares and a dove on Venus. The dove is, in effect, the special attribute of Venus, as the helmet is the Ares attribute.
, Is likewise placed between the victorious Venus united series of statues that have only garments to cover the lower limbs, and whose decisive character placing one foot on a small rise. This posture implies the idea of domination over Ares, when a helmet that supports the foot, and the world when he simply rests on a rock.  In this character, you do not have the Goddess's grace that gives you as Venus rising; on the contrary, it takes the heroin attitudes. Body shapes are full of vigor and strength and the features have a contemptuous brutality of expression far from the smile. 


The Venus de Milo is considered the most complete sort this statues class. Severe beauty and unaffected in such a figure has nothing nice coquetry than most artists of the last centuries considered essential prerogative of women. It was in February 1820 that a poor Greek peasant discovered, fidgeting lands in your garden. The statue, made of Parian marble, is made up of two blocks which is hidden by meeting the folds of the robe.

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