Sentence examples for aphrodite from inspiring English sources

The chancellor was not amused on opening the local papers and finding herself climbing into the Aphrodite thermal spring in a bathing suit.

A combination of Cyprus's economic meltdown and the Aphrodite gasfield should be enough to justify a new attempt.

The following day, a private American collector offered Mr Wace around €500,000 for a marble naked Aphrodite (pictured above), one of the most famous figures of the Hellenic world.European collectors were out in force.

The Greeks identified Hathor with their Aphrodite.

Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.

Gossip in the trade suggested that Aphrodite had in fact been found not long before in Sicily.

But by then Mr Ferri's investigation had achieved its aim: Aphrodite was back in Italy, along with dozens of other looted antiquities from American museums.

For now, north and south are living up to stereotypes: Cyprus as the birthplace of the beautiful but fickle Aphrodite, who emerged from the surf at Paphos Finlandd as the home of Vainamoinen, the wifeless old bard who, according to the "Kalevala", a Finnish epic, surfaced from the primeval sea to plant the barren land.In this section A troubled island story The war generation Abuse of frailty?

IT WAS on the coast near Paphos, in south-western Cyprus, that the goddess Aphrodite rose radiant from the sea-foam to waft abroad her message of harmony and love.

It can signify sex or saintliness; it is at once the trademark of the man-eater as well as the incorruptible innocent.Joanna Pitman teases out this weird ambiguity with reference to the lives of some of history's great blondes, from Aphrodite to Madonna via the Virgin Mary, Elizabeth I and Marilyn Monroe.

One is the recently discovered Aphrodite gasfield in the eastern Mediterranean.