Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Aphrodite - Is She a Fully Greek Creation or an Inspiration From Other Cultures?
Do you think Aphrodite is a fully Greek creation or do we think once again there's an inspiration from other cultures? I don't think many of the gods are fully Greek creations. Mesopotamia and the Phoenicians, everyone was developing all of their own things long before the Greeks. And so everyone kind of had influence all over that region. The foam that she is born on is explicitly on the island of Cyprus. She is born very far to the East, you know, even in terms of geography in mythology.
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