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Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite Editedby Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup LEIDEN•BOSTON 2010 Onthecover:AnAtticblack-figureamphora,featuringAphroditeandPoseidon,ca.520bc. London,BritishMuseumB254.DrawingafterLenormant,deWitte,Élitedesmonuments céramographiques.Matériauxpourl’histoiredesreligionsetdesmoeursdel’antiquité(Paris, 1844–1861),3,pl.15. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Brill'scompaniontoaphrodite/editedbyAmyC.Smith&SadiePickup. p.cm. EmergedfromaconferenceattheUniversityofReading,May8-10,2008. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-18003-1(hardback:alk.paper) 1.Aphrodite(Greekdeity)–Congresses.I.Smith,AmyClaire,1966-II.Pickup,Sadie,1983- III.Title. BL820.V5B742010 292.2'114–dc22 2009052569 ISSN 1872-3357 ISBN 9789004180031 Copyright2010byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. 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Feesaresubjecttochange. printedinthenetherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgments..................................................... ix Abbreviations .......................................................... xi Listofillustrations..................................................... xiii introduction ChapterOne FlourishingAphrodite:AnOverview................ 3 VincianePirenne-Delforge(UniversityofLiège) ChapterTwo BuddingAphrodite:IntotheFuture ................. 17 SadiePickup(UniversityofOxford)and AmyC.Smith(UniversityofReading) partone aphrodite’s identity ChapterThree Aphrodite:TheGoddessofAppearances........... 29 VeredLevKenaan(UniversityofHaifa) ChapterFour Oquamtememorem,virgo?InterpretingVenusin Aeneid.–................................................... 51 JamesBurbidge(UniversityofOxford) ChapterFive AphroditeEnoplion ................................... 79 StephanieL.Budin(RutgersUniversity) ChapterSix RethinkingAphroditeasaGoddessatWork.......... 113 GabriellaPironti(UniversityofNaples) vi contents parttwo aphrodite’s companions andrelations ChapterSeven TheSongofAresandAphrodite:Aˇsertuon Skheria .............................................................. 133 AnnetteTeffeteller(ConcordiaUniversity,Montreal) ChapterEight Father-DaughterDynamicsintheIliad:TheRole ofAphroditeinDefiningZeus’Regime............................ 151 KassandraJackson(UniversityofChicago) partthree thespreadof aphrodite’s cults ChapterNine ImagesofCypriotAphroditeinherSanctuaries duringtheAgeoftheCity-Kingdoms.............................. 167 AnjaUlbrich(UniversityofOxford) ChapterTen AphroditeontheAkropolis:EvidencefromAttic Pottery............................................................... 195 ElisabettaPala(UniversityofCagliari) ChapterEleven AphroditeandtheFleetinClassicalAthens ...... 217 ChryssanthiPapadopoulou(King’sCollege,UniversityofLondon) ChapterTwelve EncounteringtheWorldofAphroditeonthe WesternGreekMainland........................................... 235 AlexanderNagel(UniversityofMichigan) ChapterThirteen TheArchitecturalSettingoftheKnidian Aphrodite ........................................................... 251 SophieMontel(UniversityofParisOuestNanterre—LaDéfense) ChapterFourteen InteractiveAphrodite:GreekResponsestothe IdeaofAphroditeasAncestressoftheRomans ................... 269 JennyWallensten(SwedishInstitute,Athens) contents vii partfour thereception of thegoddess ChapterFifteen AugustanAphrodites:TheAllureofGreekArt inRomanVisualCulture ........................................... 287 RachelKousser(CityUniversityofNewYork,Brooklyn) ChapterSixteen AphroditeandtheSpectacleofthe AmphitheatreinRomanAfrica .................................... 307 MargheritaCarucci(HelsinkiCollegiumforAdvancedStudies) ChapterSeventeen AphroditeinLateAntiqueandMedieval Byzantium........................................................... 321 AnthousaPapagiannaki(UniversityofOxford) ChapterEighteen AphroditeDeconstructed:Botticelli’sVenus andMarsintheNationalGallery,London......................... 347 DavidBellingham(Sotheby’sInstituteofArt,London) ChapterNineteen ReflectionsinaMirror:Bonnard’sAphrodite.. 375 AnnaGruetznerRobins(UniversityofReading) Bibliography ........................................................... 387 PeriodizationofAntiquity............................................. 421 GeneralIndex.......................................................... 423 GeographicIndex...................................................... 433 IndexofPersonalNames .............................................. 437 Monumenta............................................................ 443 Testimonia ............................................................. 449 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thisvolumeemergedfromtheconference,AphroditeRevealed:AGod- dess Disclosed, which we cohosted at the University of Reading, – May , under the aegis of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. WegratefullyacknowledgesupportfortheeventfromReading’sDepart- ment of Classics, the Classical Association, the Society for the Promo- tion of Hellenic Studies, and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Weare particularlygrateful not only to the speakers and other delegatesforanenjoyableandstimulatingacademicgathering,butalso to Nina Aitken and Jennifer Allison for help with its organization, and totwosuccessiveHeadsoftheReadingDepartmentofClassics—Helen KingandBarbaraGoff—fortheirencouragement.Reading’sDepartment of Classics, with its expertise in religion and myth, alongside its role at the forefront of reception and material-culture studies, was ideally suitedtohosttheconference.ItsUreMuseumofGreekArchaeologypro- vided us with a stimulating backdrop, especially as it proudly displays a statue of Aphrodite from Cyrene, on loan from the British Museum since.Wewerejoinedbytwofilmdirectors,MaryPlantandStavros Papageorghiou, both engaged in the documentation of Aphrodite in the film medium, with their respective productions, About Aphrodite ()andΚ(cid:3)πρις.ΗΑ(cid:10)ρ(cid:11)δ(cid:13)τητηςΚ(cid:3)πρ(cid:11)υ().Wealsobenefited frompresentationsbyK.Bender,abouthisextensiveWebresourceson post-Classical Aphrodite/Venus, and Christine Kondoleon, curator of GreekandRomanartattheMuseumofFineArts,Boston,onherforth- comingexhibition,provisionallyentitled WorshippingLove:TheMighty Aphrodite. AphroditeRevealed:AGoddessDisclosed explored thismostambigu- ous, alluring, and interesting of the Greek deities. It was consciously interdisciplinary,consideringthebroadnatureofthegoddess,fromher origins to the appropriation of her persona in the modern world, and thus received interest from scholars and students of (inter alia) classics, literature, art history, archaeology, religion, and myth. The confer- enceprogramtookathematicapproach,incorporatingthefollowingtop- ics:Aphrodite’sdivinecompanionsandhersyncretismwithGreekgod- desses as well as Eastern goddesses (day ); her diffusion in literature and reception in visual arts and literary arts, beginning in the Roman