Aphrodite
Captivating Greek Myths and Facts Involving the Olympian Goddess of Love
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Did you know that Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was also associated with the sea?
Born from a strange mixture of divine blood, severed genitals, and seafoam, Aphrodite washed up on the shores of Cyprus long before the emergence of her fellow Olympians. A figure who is as petty as she is relatable, she is not only a key deity of the Greek pantheon, but she is also a central figure in many of the myths we know and love today.
With influences possibly rooted in the goddesses Ishtar and Astarte, there are scholars who believe that the concept of Aphrodite was imported to Greece from the Middle East or West Asia. Contact between cultures might have led to her incorporation into the main Greek pantheon, with her foreign origins explaining some of the regional differences regarding her birth and personality. While her connections to beauty and love are her most well-known attributes, places like Sparta and Cyprus also viewed her as a war goddess.
This audiobook focuses on myths that are either centered around Aphrodite or feature her as an important character. Because of her volatile nature and quick temper, Aphrodite could just as often be a force for good as she could be a force for evil. While it would be impossible to gather all the different stories related to Aphrodite in their entirety in one collection, this audiobook provides a nice, if somewhat modest, assortment of narratives that display different facets of this fascinatingly complex goddess.
Some of the myths you’ll discover in this audiobook are:
- Aphrodite’s birth and unexpected marriage
- The life and death of Adonis
- How Psyche and Eros’ love defied divine wrath
- Pygmalion’s arrogance and his unusual mistress
- The beginnings of the greatest war ever fought
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