RE-AIR: Wandering Across the Ancient World, the Mesopotamian & Phoenician Origins of Aphrodite

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This episode originally aired in July of 2023. Before she was Aphrodite, she was Kypris, and before she was Kypris, well, she was Astarte and Inanna/Ishtar. This is the story of Aphrodite's origins in ancient Phoenicia and Mesopotamia. You can submit your questions or comments or favourites here! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theoi.com entry on Aphrodite; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Aphrodite by Monica Cyrino; Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes; Article: Before Kypris was Aphrodite by Stephanie L. Budin; Herodotus' Histories, translated by GC Macauley (opening quote only).

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1:03.0	Then the Skivians went on to invade Egypt, and when they were in Syria, which is called Palestine, Psemitikos, king of Egypt, met them, and by gifts and entreaties, he turned them from their purpose,
1:10.0	so that they should not advance further.
1:12.5	And as they were treated, when they came to the city of Ascalon in Syria, most of the Skivians
1:18.2	passed through without doing any damage, but a few of them who had stayed behind plundered the
1:24.6	temple of Aphrodite-Urania. Now this temple, as I find by inquiry, is the most ancient
1:30.7	of all the temples which belong to this goddess. For the temple in Cyprus was founded from this,
1:37.4	as the people of Cyprus themselves report, and it was the Phoenicians who founded the temple in
1:42.9	Kithara, coming from this land of Syria.
1:46.0	So these Skithians who had plundered the Temple of Ascalon and their descendants forever
1:51.2	were smitten by the divinity with a disease which made them women instead of men.
1:57.8	And the Skithians say that it was for this reason that they were diseased, and that for
2:02.8	this reason, travelers who visit Skithia now see among them the affection of those who by the
2:09.4	Skivians are called Ennares.
2:11.3	Music Oh, hello there. I am Liv, and this is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, that Greek mythology podcast that really likes to dip its toes into other mythologies when the inspiration arises.
2:48.8	And also, you know, that woman who's become so obsessed with the historical and cultural
2:53.9	context of the myths that she's becoming a bit over the top, if we're being honest.
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