Aphrodite

How To Use Aphrodite In A Sentence

• Until the middle of September an exhibit titled Eros showcases Cupid and his mother Aphrodite or Venus. 2007 April 13 archive at eternallycool.net
• In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
• Those unfamiliar with the term "intersex" may still recognize the term "hermaphrodite" -- a single human possessing both male and female genitalia -- which is one variety of intersexuality. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart. The Gods Return
• Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
• The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
• IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
• There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites.
• He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
• I know I shall not be able to describe this trait, yet when I look up into her eyes -- eyes, remember, which are mere fictions of my imagination -- when I look into her face, when I see her move so statelily into my presence, I recognize there that portion of her which she has inherited from the Aphrodite of other days; and this I know is beauty. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z