Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire by Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire by Bettany Hughes

Historian Bettany Hughes traces the goddess known as Aphrodite to the Greeks and Venus to the Romans across three thousand years, from her likely origins in ancient Near Eastern fertility deities through her endless reinterpretation in art, literature and popular culture.

Hughes treats the goddess as a lens for examining how each era has understood desire, beauty and female power, moving from Bronze Age temples to Renaissance painting to modern advertising, showing how remarkably persistent — and contested — this particular deity has remained.

A richly researched cultural history of one of mythology's most enduring figures.

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