Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite

471 Pages·2010·32.89 MB·English

by  Amy Claire Smith

Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite

Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite
Editedby
Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2010
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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) clas-
sics, 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