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  1. Aphrodite

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    Aphrodite is a major figure in the ancient Greek pantheon (link: /entries/greek-pantheon/), primarily associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Across various historical periods and regions, her cult exhibited significant syncretism, absorbing attributes from Near Eastern fertility goddesses, most notably the Cypriot form of Astarte. Her primary function, the …

  2. Aphrodite Goddess

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    Association with Sappho and Lyric Poetry
    The poet Sappho of Lesbos is inextricably linked to the cult and theology of Aphrodite. Sappho's extant work presents the goddess not merely as a distant deity but as an active, sometimes tormenting, participant in the poet's emotional landscape. The intensity with which Sappho cataloged the [physiological manifestations](/entries/physiological-manifestations…

  3. Aphrodite Goddess

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    Notable progeny include:
    Eros (Cupid)/): The winged agent of desire, whose arrows cause irresistible attraction or aversion. While often depicted as youthful, early Orphic texts describe Eros/) as an ageless,chthonic entity whose influence predates Aphrodite herself [9].
    Phobos and Deimos: (Fear and Terror), oddly …

  4. Courtly Love

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    Transition to Allegory
    As the troubadour tradition waned, its tenets were absorbed and transformed by clerical writers and later allegorical poets. In the transition, the focus shifted from the direct service to the lady to the allegorical representation of Love) itself. The Roman de la Rose, while commencing in the spirit of courtly love, ultimately dismantled its structures by subjecting the idealized lady to relentless, rational dissection b…

  5. Desire (ethics)

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    Desire (ethics)) is a central concept in moral philosophy concerned with the role that appetites, longings, and volitional impulses play in the determination of moral rightness, moral obligation, and the teleological structure of the good life. Its philosophical weight shifts depending on whether desire is viewed as a source of moral knowledge, the prima…