Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

by Bettany Hughes

Book Overview

A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.
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. Proving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541674235
• ISBN13: 9781541674233
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"