... . Beazley J. D. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd ed. 5 vols. Oxford : Oxford UP , 1963 . Beazley J. D. “ Some Inscriptions on Vases, V .” American Journal of Archaeology 54 ( 1950 ): 310 - 22 . Bergren Ann . “ The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric...

... any popular romance. Ancient Greek women, however, may be represented in painting and sculpture as adoring a young, beard- less, and often languorous male, as in the fifth-century bc representations of Aphrodite and Adonis, rather...

...? The Greeks above all, but also the Romans, exhibit a non-patriarchal side to their histories; thus the ages of Aphrodite and the cult of Demeter were neither patriarchal nor simply mythical. They had their own institutions and singular laws, especially as concerned the ownership of property, the transmittal...

... . “Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.” The Homeric Hymns . Trans. Apostolos Athanassakis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins up, 1976 . Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments . Ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Trans. Edmond Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford up, 2002 . Konstan...

.... 10 But mature age did not necessarily prohibit a ":oman from earning a living as a prostitute: male tastes varied (Aristophanes fro 148 [Kassel-Austin)) - two f1ellenistic epigrams portray female prostitutes dedicating~ severally~a purple horsewhip~reins~ and a golden spur to Aphrodite II...

..., it is because it proves impossible to locate in reality. In Venus in Furs , Wanda is consistently incapable of animating the ideal she is called upon to incarnate. The Wanda we meet at the start of the novel is a fickle Aphrodite, the Greek ideal of the woman of pleasure. But after Severin installs her...

... and predation. Of course, Sappho presents problems for such a characteriza- tion of a masculine lyric tradition, in that poems like her fragment one depict the poet herself, in league with the goddess Aphrodite, in pursuit of an elusive...

.... As the authors state in their preface, however, their title is derived from the nineteenth-century word for homosexual, Uranian. The term was coined by the early German homosexual emancipationist Karl Ulrichs and was popularly used through the First World War. It refers to Aphrodite Urania, whom Plato had...

..., companions of Persephone. When she was abducted by Pluto, they asked the gods for wings to help them in their search for their companion. Other authors attribute this transformation to the anger of Demeter, since the Sirens failed to prevent the abduction of her daughter. It is also said that Aphrodite...

..., while ironically also renaturalizing it, the assumption being that if “masculine methods” and “feminine methods” were somehow culled from the equation, a newly uncoded underbelly of pure geometry and pure arithmetic would spring forth, like Aphrodite from the sea foam. So while the present argument...

... to cause emasculation.4 As Ovid's narrator tells the tale, the adolescent son of Hermes and Aphrodite comes upon the spring in his travels. The nymph Salmacis, the moment she lays eyes on this youth, conceives a passion to possess him. Much as in Ovid's earlier narration of the Echo/Narcissus episode...

... seeing his son triumph in the Olympics; and the Greek painter Zeuxis died of sexist, derisive laughter when commissioned to paint a portrait of Aphrodite modeled after a homely woman. Death from joy or “gay death” was a prominent theme of antiquity and of medieval folk culture, one that Mikhail Bakhtin...