3 janv. 2013 - 27. The girdle of Aphrodite-Venus...or was it her 'wonderbra'?
Description:
The traditional translation of Aphrodite's famous 'kestos himas poikilos' = embroidered girdle in Homer's Iliad, Book 14, is not without controversy. The issue is that Homer's text literally says that Aphrodite looses from her breasts - ἀπὸ στήθεσφιν ἐλύσατο (apo stetesphin elusato) - the kestos himas. Thus it could have been a decorative breast-band and not a girdle or belt, normally worn around the waist.Read more here:
http://kbender.blogspot.be/2013/01/the-girdle-of-aphrodite-venusor-was-it.html?view=magazine
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Date:
3 janv. 2013
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