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A long, elegant gold hairpin adorned with #Aphrodite and her son #Eros. Eros offers support to his mum who appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-shaped arm bracelets she already wears.
🏛️ Gold Aphrodite Hairpin, 1st century BCE, Greece
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#Aphrodite-Venus with her iconic top-bow hairstyle as she puts on an anklet or a sandal. The gold of the jewellery and red of her lips really stands out against her dark skin.
🏛️ #Venus statuette with gold jewellery from #Pompeii. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples
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#Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite Rising from the Sea, as depicted in an #Egyptian blue faience statuette. Egyptian faience (tjehenet in ancient Egyptian) is a ceramic material that gets a glassy look from quartz reacting with alkali.
🏛️ Aphrodite Anadyomene made from blue faience, Ptolemaic #Egypt
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Neoclassical statue of #Aphrodite and her lover #Adonis. Adonis was loved not only by Aphrodite but also by Persephone, Apollon, Dionysos, and #Herakles. In fact, Herakles' death was orchastrated by Aphrodite in revenge for the hero stealing her man!
🏛️ Venus and Adonis by Antonio Canova, dated ca. 1794 CE
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One of the most famous artworks of #Aphrodite is Aphrodite Kallipygos, Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks. The goddess lifts her dress to reveal her gorgeous backside to the onlooker.
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture, 1st or 2nd century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples.
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A rare #fresco of Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite/Venus rising from the sea. The goddess is in the nude, wringing out her hair. Note her beautiful jewellery!
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You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
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"She came to sea-girt Kypros, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Gods and men call her #Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (the foam-born) because she grew amid the sea foam."
Hesiod, Theogony 176
🏛️ Aphrodite figurine from #Corinth, dated 3rd century BCE.
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Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite rising from the sea) standing in her sea shell.
🏛️ Terracotta figurine, made in Amisos (Pontus), late 1st century BCE - early 1st century CE, found in Kertch (ancient Panticapaeum). Today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
#Zeus pursuing #Ganymedes who is playing with a hoop. Hoops (krikoi), were probably made of bronze, iron, or copper, and were driven with a stick called the "elater". Hoop driving was practiced in the gymnasium and was also used for tumbling & dance with different techniques.
🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes, red-figure vase painting, National Archaeological Museum #Athens
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Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the Roman goddess #Venus. Macrobius mentions in his Saturnalia a statue of a bearded Venus in #Cyprus, depicted in female dress but with the body of a man.
🏛️ Modern photo edit of Venus de Milo with a beard by anonymous
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Nothing is sweeter than Love; and every other joy
is second to it: even the honey I spit out of my mouth.
Thus Nossis says: and who didn't love Kypris [#Aphrodite],
doesn't know what sort of roses her flowers are.
Nossis of Locri
🏛️ Red-figure vase painting of Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta, dated 430 BCE.
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Relief of #Aphrodite with her lover #Adonis. He really got around. One version of the death of #Herakles says that Aphrodite was behind it because Herakles had seduced her man. Like Dionysos, Apollon & Persephone.
🏛️ Aphrodite & Adonis, Greek Plaster Relief, 3rd–2nd century BCE
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Mirror case depicting two women bathing before a statue of #Aphrodite on a pillar. The goddess is of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type, Aphrodite rising from the sea, her pose suggesting that she is wringing out her hair.
🏛️ Roman mirror case dated 110–117 CE, today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Terracotta statuette of #Aphrodite or a #Muse leaning on a pillar. Presumably Eros was originally part of the statuette. Traces of brilliant colour remain, especially the intense pink of the chiton.
🏛️ 3rd century BCE, Tomb of the Erotes in Eretria, Greece. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Circular ivory pyxis depicting a nude #Aphrodite with #Hermes and #Athena. Hermes seems to be holding the Apple of Eris, so this scene would be the Judgement of Paris.
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This nude terracotta figurine was likely inspired by the #Aphrodite of Knidos by #Praxiteles. Created from inexpensive terracotta clay, this Aphrodite might have been commissioned as a votive offering by a person of modest means.
🏛️ Greece, 4th-3rd Century BCE, today in the Cleveland Museum of Art