AphroditeAnd the Gods of Love
Ed. Christine Kondoleon;Phoebe C Segal
In five scholarly essays, illustrated by more than 150 photographs of sculptures, mosaics, painted vases, statuettes and coins, this volume traces the worship of the deity of love, from her Eastern Mediterranean ancestors to the Greek cults of Aphrodite, and discusses the paradox of the ‘philandering goddess of marriage’, Eros her child, and the female nude in classical art.