Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

by Bettany Hughes

Book Overview

A "lively, wide-ranging" (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love

Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus--and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Historian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541606043
• ISBN13: 9781541606043
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"