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unusual facts about Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes



Alexandros of Antioch

Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown artist of the Hellenistic age who is best known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

Anchises

Julius Caesar and other prominent Romans claimed to be descended from Venus (the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite) and Anchises.

Anna Drijver

In the same year Anna sang the role of Aphrodite (goddess of love) in the Dutch version of the video game God of War III and did voice acting for the action-MMO game The Chronicles of Spellborn.

Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes

Based on the vision of Hesiod, in the classic Teogonía, the film begins in the city of Citrea when Cronos, the younger son of Uranus, cuts off the genitals of his father and it throws them into the sea.

Aphrodite: mœurs antiques

He has come to prefer his statue of the goddess Aphrodite even to his lover, Queen Bérénice, who posed for it.

The book caused a scandal, and reviewer Dorothy Parker noted how difficult it was to obtain in New York, and that a play by George Hazelton based on the book was likewise successful because it was denounced as obscene by the mayor.

Aphroditeola

The name Aphroditeola is an allusion to Aphrodite Greek goddess because of the combination of pretty pink coloration and perfume-like odor.

Battle of Cnidus

According to Pausanias (1.1.3), Conon commemorated the victory by establishing a sanctuary of Aphrodite (the patron goddess of Cnidus and a key deity for the Phoenicians) in Piraeus.

Carminia Ammia

She was the second wife of Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudius the elder, a priest of the goddess Aphrodite in Attouda, Caria, in Asia Minor.

Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths

In the present, a new cruise, the Saint Aphrodite, was built by the Yashiro group and Conan and the rest were invited through Sonoko.

Château de Malle

The statues were done by Italian artists brought there for that purpose in the early part of the 18th century, and represent figures from Greek mythology: Cephalus, Aurora, Cupid, Aphrodite (Venus), Adonis, and Flora, the goddess of flowers and gardens.

Coming, Eden Bower!

It has been suggested that the story was influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem Eden Bower, the singer Mary Garden and also Pierre Louys's novel Aphrodite.

Conrad Coates

He appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Hephaestus, God of Craft and husband to Aphrodite, Unnatural History as Samuel Tolo & a guest appearance in the Fringe episode What Lies Below as Vincent Ames.

Donations of Alexandria

For the finale of the festivities, the whole city was summoned to the Gymnasium of Alexandria, where Antony and Cleopatra, dressed as Dionysus-Osiris and Isis-Aphrodite, sat on golden thrones.

Ein Karem

During excavations in Ein Karem, a marble statue of Aphrodite (or Venus) was found, broken in two.

Eriphyle

Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.

Evagoras Pallikarides

Pallikarides was born in Tsada, Paphos District, one of five children of Miltiades and Aphrodite Pallikarides.

Frederick C. Billard

During his tour as commanding officer, Aphrodite operated in the European war zone and was the first American warship to transit the Kiel Canal after the World War I armistice was signed.

Georges Bess

In 1999 Bess joined with Milo Manara and Claire Wendling to illustrate the second tome of Pierre Louÿs' erotic masterpiece Aphrodite issed in three volumes.

Henri Sauguet

The story is about a young man who falls in love with a cat, which assumes a human form through the intervention of Aphrodite.

Küçükkuyu, Ayvacık

According to legend, Zeus watched the battle of Troy from an altar near Küçükkuyu and Aphrodite discovered a source of healing water in Küçükkuyu.

Malaclypse the Younger

According to Malaclypse the Elder himself, he is a 4th century B.C. Erisian priest (who was also prepared to perform services to Hermes, Dionysus, Heracles, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera) who achieved "transcendental illumination" in the course of the massacre at Melos in 415 BC.

Mana Mou

The song is an ode to Cyprus itself, with the singers likening the country's beauty to that of Aphrodite.

Marlen Angelidou

While she was studying she made her professional debut as the lead in the Stavros ’Sideras’ musical Pygmalion, The True Story (Aphrodite/Galatea) opposite Peter Polycarpou.

Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks

This case was investigated on TV by Aphrodite Jones in her Investigation Discovery documentary TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (Season 1, episode 1), and would also be explored on the same network on two other programs: Wicked Attraction (episode "Calm Before the Storm") and Deadly Sins (episode "I'd Kill For A Sex Change").

My Life in Ruins

My Life in Ruins (UK title: Driving Aphrodite) is a 2009 romantic comedy film set amongst the ruins of ancient Greece, starring Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and British comedy actor and impressionist Alistair McGowan.

Nizip

In excavation sites, valuable mosaics have been found, including those of Triton, Dionysos' Wedding, Poseidon, Perseus, Gypsy Girl or Gaia, Dolphin and Eros, Physke, Akhilleus, Aphrodite's Birth, the God of Euphrates, and Europa.

Paphinia

The generic name comes from the Greek Paphia, the name of Aphrodite of Cyprus.

Phanagoria

Hecataeus and Strabo mention a local sanctuary of Aphrodite as the largest in the Pontic region.

Philippus

3,000 years ago a select few of the Olympian gods, which included Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Demeter and Aphrodite, took the souls of women slain throughout time by the hands of men and sent them to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.

RAF Woodbridge

No Aphrodite mission was ever flown from Woodbridge because, after one aborted attempt, the unit moved up to RAF Fersfield, near Diss, Norfolk.

Seashell

The goddess of love, Venus or Aphrodite is often traditionally depicted rising from the sea on a seashell.

Selemnos

That time, the goddess Aphrodite made him a river, the waters of which were believed to cure of unrequited love.

Sidera

Loukas Sideras, drummer of the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child

South Devon Railway Dido class

: A hero can be an idealized character in mythology or folklore but in this case probably refers to Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite.

Tenderness Junction

Despite the increased musical skill of The Fugs during this period, there are many wild and obscure moments, most notably "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967", a real-life recording of an anti-war protest at The Pentagon where protesters including The Fugs chanted 'Out Demons Out' and had a love-in, plus the long and experimental "Aphrodite Mass".

Uranian

In this dialog, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolised by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

Year of the Wolf

The track was ultimately rejected (although two other Pallot penned tracks "Aphrodite" and "Better Than Today" made the final cut).

The lead single "Put Your Hands Up" was originally written for Kylie Minogues album Aphrodite.


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