[59] Monica Cyrino notes that the epithet may relate to the fact that, in many artistic depictions of Aphrodite, she is shown smiling. [258], Paintings of Venus were favorites of the late nineteenth-century Academic artists in France. [172] According to Ovid in his Metamorphoses (book 10.238 ff. Anteros was originally born from the sea alongside Aphrodite; only later became her son. Bananas may help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of developing cancer. An interesting insight into the female ornaments of Roman times, the statuette, probably imported from the area of Alexandria, reproduces with a few modifications the statuary type of Aphrodite untying her sandal, known from copies in bronze and terracotta. Rub the inside of a banana peel on your leather shoes or handbag and polish with a dry cloth for a quick shine. [280], In 1938, Gleb Botkin, a Russian immigrant to the United States, founded the Church of Aphrodite, a neopagan religion centered around the worship of a mother goddess, whom its practitioners identified as Aphrodite. If you haven't eaten anything in the last few hours (like Mrs. Poyner), a banana … [132][133], The myth of Aphrodite and Adonis is probably derived from the ancient Sumerian legend of Inanna and Dumuzid. Green bananas are used to make salads, just as you would make a potato salad. Through the wrath of Aphrodite (reasons unknown), Leucippus fell in love with his own sister. [97] She is often depicted nude. Thus she was also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus), because both locations claimed to be the place of her birth. [100][102] The sun-god Helios saw Aphrodite and Ares having sex in Hephaestus's bed and warned Hephaestus, who fashioned a net of gold. There's even a delicious pickled banana dish that's popular in the islands. [6][7], Scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, accepting Hesiod's "foam" etymology as genuine, analyzed the second part of Aphrodite's name as *-odítē "wanderer"[8] or *-dítē "bright". [130] He then strips her naked and makes love to her. "[258] Other critics dismissed it as a piece of unimaginative, sentimental kitsch,[258] but Ingres himself considered it to be among his greatest works and used the same figure as the model for his later 1856 painting La Source. [279] Frequently these books do not even mention Aphrodite,[279] or mention her only briefly, but make use of her name as a selling point. [160], Aphrodite generously rewarded those who honored her, but also punished those who disrespected her, often quite brutally. [291][better source needed] Her many epithets include "Sea Born", "Killer of Men", "She upon the Graves", "Fair Sailing", and "Ally in War". More Greek words for banana. [27][25][26] Pausanias states that the first to establish a cult of Aphrodite were the Assyrians, followed by the Paphians of Cyprus and then the Phoenicians at Ascalon. [246] Aphrodite/Venus was best known to Western European scholars through her appearances in Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Aphrodite had many other epithets, each emphasizing a different aspect of the same goddess, or used by a different local cult. Va; Pompeii A.D. 79 1980, p. 79 e n. 198; Pompeya 1981, n. 198, p. 107; Pompeii lives 1984, fig. [230] The throne shows Aphrodite rising from the sea, clad in a diaphanous garment, which is drenched with seawater and clinging to her body, revealing her upturned breasts and the outline of her navel. Too yum! [267], Aphrodite appears in Richard Garnett's short story collection The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales (1888),[269] in which the gods' temples have been destroyed by Christians.