CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Roman Empire, Cupid, Anchises
15 Mar 2014
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Has a huge erect dick in artwork. Image usually in gardens as scarecrow god. Often on the front doors of houses (cause he brought luck and gaurded against theives) Most of his myths are comic and obscene. Cyprus was aphrodites city. one of her myths is creating the. 1st prostitutes. this took place in cyprus. there was a fest for her and they didn"t give her proper praise so she made them prostitutes and over time they turn into stone from shame. Eventually another fest for aphrodite occured and he asked for her to transform the statue into a real living woman. her name was given as galatea. Pygmalion and galatea give birth to a sun named paphos. Myrrha gets pregnant from sex with her father, and gives birth after she becomes a tree. her son, adonis, is born from this myrrh tree. when aphrodite sees him, she falls in love.
