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Identifier: greekmythologysy00scul (find matches)
Title: Greek mythology systematized
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Scull, Sarah Amelia
Subjects: Mythology, Greek Emblems
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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28o GREEK MYTHOLOGY. and beautiful, sometimes with and sometimes withoutserpents around the head. APHRODITE \_AphrddVte\ OR VENUS. (Table H, 4.) Central Ideas. Greek life was moved and moulded by that powerwhich moves and moulds all human life—love. We have hitherto used the term Love as the synonymfor Eros, but since Hesiod makes distinct mention of
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Aphrodite, or Venus. Aphrodite as the goddess of love, we naturally ask whatwas the relation of the two deities. We have seen thatat the time that Hesiod wrote his wonderful story of thegods there was a general recognition of a power thatswayed human hearts, and they called it Love; while in APHRODITE. 281 charming union with this power, as though it were itscomplement, was ever found Beauty—each a world-power ; united, they were irresistible. Enshrined as the divinity who through love and beautytouched all human hearts was Aphrodite, as though Eroshad commissioned her to unite on earth human hearts,even as he did those that were divine, until her work,perfectly completed, should be deemed worthy of im-mortality. This could be true only of the highest idealof Aphrodite; and though in the course of time thatideal, like all others, had many phases, we rejoice to findthat an early Hellenic conception of this goddess, un-contaminated by Eastern influences, was high, pure, andnoble. Poss

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