Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire by Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

Bettany Hughes with Bettany Hughes (Narrator)

3 hours, 11 minutes first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this v...

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