Brill's companion to Aphrodite
By: edited by Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789004180031
Notes: Emerged from a conference at the University of Reading, May 8-10, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Flourishing Aphrodite : an overview / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge; title: Budding Aphrodite : into the future / Sadie Pickup and Amy C. Smith; title: Part I: Aphrodite's identity; title: Aphrodite : the goddess of appearances / Vered Lev Kenaan; title: O quam te memorem, virgo? Interpreting Venus in Aeneid 1.314-417 / James Burbidge; title: Aphrodite enoplion / Stephanie L. Budin; title: Rethinking Aphrodite as a goddess at work / Gabriella Pironti; title: Part II: Aphrodite's companions and relations; title: The song of Ares and Aphrodite : asertu on skheria / Annette Teffeteller; title: Father-daughter dynamics in the Iliad : the role of Aphrodite in defining Zeus' regime / Kassandra Jackson; title: Part III: The spread of Aphrodite's cults; title: Images of cypriot Aphrodite in her sanctuaries during the age of the city-kingdoms / Anja Ulbrich; title: Aphrodite on the Akropolis : evidence from attic pottery / Elisabetta Pala; title: Aphrodite and the fleet in classical Athens / Chryssanthi Papadopoulou; title: Encountering the world of Aphrodite on the western Greek mainland / Alexander Nagel; title: The architectural setting of the Knidian Aphrodite / Sophie Montel; title: Interactive Aphrodite : Greek responses to the idea of Aphrodite as ancestress of the Romans / Jenny Wallensten; title: Part IV: The reception of the goddess; title: Augustan Aphrodites : the allure of Geek art in Roman visual culture / Rachel Kousser; title: Aphrodite and the spectacle of the amphitheatre in Roman Africa / Margherita Carucci; title: Aphrodite in late antique and medieval Byzantium / Anthousa Papagiannaki; title: Aphrodite deconstructed : Botticelli's Venus and Mars in the National Gallery, London / David Bellingham; title: Reflections in a mirror : Bonnard's Aphrodite / Anna Gruetzner Robins.