Sunday, February 5, 2012

How has Aphrodite influenced the art and ideas of later generations? examples please?

You should choose one ancient myth (Greek or Roman from your textbook) and find how it has been used by later generations in such media as movies, art, music, architecture, video games, comic books, literature or anything else you can think of.|||Aphrodite has influenced many different categories of life with her flawless body and overall lustful attraction. She is portrayed as the most gorgeous woman and is sought after by many men throughout the books of the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. Art has portrayed her in different ways, enticing and coy at the same time. Architecture portrays her usually scantily clothed. Literature portrays her as the woman that sent the world to its doom by promising Paris of Troy a woman just like her if he would only pick her as the fairest woman (sounds rather like Snow White) and basically starting the entire war. I hope these ideas give you a good basis for your essay!

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