Brill's companion to aphrodite / edited by Amy C. Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description
xvii, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Brill's companions in classical studies, 1872-3357 [More in this series]
Notes
Emerged from a conference at the University of Reading, May 8-10, 2008.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Flourishing Aphrodite : an overview / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
  • Budding Aphrodite : into the future / Sadie Pickup
  • Part I: Aphrodite's identity
  • Aphrodite : the goddess of appearances / Vered Lev Kenaan
  • O quam te memorem, virgo, 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: he 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
  • Aphrodite between Greece and Rome : 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.
ISBN
  • 9789004180031 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004180036 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009052569
OCLC
465389659
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