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020    9781474610360|qhardback 
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100 1  Hughes, Bettany,|eauthor. 
245 10 Venus & Aphrodite :|bhistory of a goddess /|cBettany 
       Hughes. 
246 3  Venus and Aphrodite 
264  1 London :|bWeidenfeld & Nicolson,|c2019. 
300    xiii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, portraits ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  A birth -- Fornicating & fighting -- Party queen -- A 
       working goddess & working girls -- Ta Aphrodisia -- the 
       things of sex -- Manikos Eros -- Venus & Empire without 
       limits -- Eastern queen -- Venus in middle age -- A 
       humanist muse -- Venus at the box office -- A very modern 
       goddess -- Conclusion. 
520    Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting 
       archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations 
       Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures 
       through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey 
       through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. 
       Charting Venus's origins in powerful ancient deities, 
       Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than 
       first meets the eye. Beginning in Cyprus, the goddess's 
       mythical birthplace, Bettany decodes Venus's relationship 
       to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and, in turn, Aphrodite's 
       mixed-up origins both as a Cypriot spirit of fertility and
       procreation - but also, as a descendant of the prehistoric
       war goddesses of the Near and Middle East, Ishtar, Inanna 
       and Astarte. On a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth 
       behind Venus, Hughes reveals how this mythological figure 
       is so much more than nudity, romance and sex. It is the 
       both the remarkable story of one of antiquity's most 
       potent forces, and the story of human desire - how it 
       transforms who we are and how we behave. 
600 00 Venus|c(Roman deity) 
600 00 Aphrodite|c(Greek deity) 
650  0 Goddesses, Greek|xHistory. 
650  0 Goddesses, Roman|xHistory.