Brill's companion to Aphrodite [electronic resource] / edited by Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup.
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2010.
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Contents:
- Introduction
- Flourishing Aphrodite : an overview / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
- Budding Aphrodite : into the future / Sadie Pickup and Amy C. Smith
- Part I: Aphrodite's identity
- Aphrodite : the goddess of appearances / Vered Lev Kenaan
- O quam te memorem, virgo? Interpreting Venus in Aeneid 1.314-417 / James Burbidge
- Aphrodite enoplion / Stephanie L. Budin
- Rethinking Aphrodite as a goddess at work / Gabriella Pironti
- Part II: Aphrodite's companions and relations
- The song of Ares and Aphrodite : asertu on skheria / Annette Teffeteller
- Father-daughter dynamics in the Iliad : the role of Aphrodite in defining Zeus' regime / Kassandra Jackson
- Part III: The spread of Aphrodite's cults
- Images of cypriot Aphrodite in her sanctuaries during the age of the city-kingdoms / Anja Ulbrich
- Aphrodite on the Akropolis : evidence from attic pottery / Elisabetta Pala
- Aphrodite and the fleet in classical Athens / Chryssanthi Papadopoulou
- Encountering the world of Aphrodite on the western Greek mainland / Alexander Nagel
- The architectural setting of the Knidian Aphrodite / Sophie Montel
- Interactive Aphrodite : Greek responses to the idea of Aphrodite as ancestress of the Romans / Jenny Wallensten
- Part IV: The reception of the goddess
- Augustan Aphrodites : the allure of Geek art in Roman visual culture / Rachel Kousser
- Aphrodite and the spectacle of the amphitheatre in Roman Africa / Margherita Carucci
- Aphrodite in late antique and medieval Byzantium / Anthousa Papagiannaki
- Aphrodite deconstructed : Botticelli's Venus and Mars in the National Gallery, London / David Bellingham
- Reflections in a mirror : Bonnard's Aphrodite / Anna Gruetzner Robins.