Quotes About Aphrodite

all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...

Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite.

Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.

I asked myself What, Sappho, can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?

It's no use Mother dear, I can't finish my weaving You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that girl

Sweet mother, now I cannot work the loom. Sleek Afroditi broke me with longing for a boy.

There is a boy, and lust Has crushed my spirit - just As gentle Aphrodite planned. Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned Aphrodite, let me win this round!

slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl

It is not easy for us to equal the goddesses in beauty of form [...] Adonis desire and Afroditi poured nectar from a gold pitcher with hands Persuasion the Geraistion shrine lovers of no one I shall enter desire

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

They stared at her together for a moment. Sun beams played over marble, making the pink alabaster glow as if rosy blood danced just under the surface of Aphrodite's skin.

In the celebration of these anniversaries, the priestesses of Aphrodite worked themselves up into a wild state of frenzy, and the term Hysteria became identified with the state of emotional derangement associated with such orgies…. The word Hysteria was used in the same sense as Aphro-disia, that is, as a synonym for the festivals of the goddess.86

I suppose you're happy now you've got your statue." "It's a very special statue," I said. Only it wasn't really, at least not in and of itself. It depicted the ever-popular "Venus-Aphrodite surprised by a sculptor and struggling to cover her tits with one hand and keep her drape at waist height with the other" so beloved of art connoisseurs in the long weary days before the invention of internet porn.

Love distills desire upon the eyes,love brings bewitching grace into the heartof those he would destroy.I pray that love may never come to mewith murderous intent,in rhythms measureless and wild.Not fire nor stars have stronger boltsthan those of Aphrodite sentby the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

The others want to coerce her. I want her to want me... so he prayed to Aphrodite, goddess of love.

Apollo taught her to sing and play the lyre. Athene taught her to spin, Demeter to tend a garden. Aphrodite taught her how to look at a man without moving her eyes and how to dance without moving her legs. Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and promised she would never drown. And finally Hermes gave her a beautiful golden box, which, he told her, she must never, never open. And then Hera gave her curiosity.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess's playground

Cleopatra identified herself as an avatar of love goddess Aphrodite.

Before crosses signified Christianity, they were Aphrodite's special emblem.)

Evening Star, gold light of Aphrodite born in the foam, Evening Star, holy diamond of the glassblue night, you are dimmer than the moon, brighter than another star. Hello, good friend! I'm on my way to serenade my shepherd love. Give me your rays in place of moonlight. There was a new moon today, but quickly set. I am no thief, no highway man to plague a traveler at night. A lover I am. And those in love must be helped.

ODYSSÉE, VIII, LES AMOURS D'ARÈS ET D'APHRODITE (479-480) : ''Il n'est d'homme ici-bas qui ne doive aux aèdes l'estime et le respect.

Aphrodite forever stands by her man and drives the spirits of death away from him.

Then in anger divine Aphrodite addressed her: "Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you, and devise painful hostilities, and you are caught in the middle of both, Trojans and Danaans, and are destroyed by an evil fate." So she spoke; and Helen born of Zeus was frightened; and

Afrodita, amante de la risa