Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire -- Bettany Hughes, Paperback

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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire -- Bettany Hughes, PaperbackA "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 Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable life story of

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ISBN: 9781797211237

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