Kythira
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Nov 3, 2026
Ronald HuttonGUEST
The mythology of the Syrian goddesses, particularly Anat, echoes the earlier myths of Inanna.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
Aphrodite is clearly a goddess who comes from the east to the Greeks via island stepping stones like Cyprus and Crete and Kythera.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
The Greeks themselves were always a bit doubtful about her as this dangerous foreigner.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
As for Venus, everybody's always known that the Roman deities took on the iconography and the mythology of the Greek.
Nick BarkerHOST
the athenian generals sophocles and eurymedon reached corsaira and helped the democratic party there defeat their oligarchic opposition they also stood by while the corsairian democrats put their opposition to death the athenians then sailed to sicily a place of eventual woe for athens but those disasters were a decade away in the winter of forty five b c a persian envoy artafernes was captured at elon on the strymon river he was on his way to sparta another sign of things to come at the end of the war which was still twenty years off the envoy was sent back to ephesus The greatest indication that Athens was squandering her newfound pre-eminence came the following summer in 424, when, relatively free from Spartan aggression, the emboldened Athenians pushed too far, not that they would learn their lesson.
Nick BarkerHOST
The campaigning season began with a fleet of sixty Athenian ships and two thousand hoplites being sent against the island of Cythera off the Laconian coast, which they captured.
Nick BarkerHOST
in response sparta having not mounted an invasion of attica that year posted garrisons around laconia expecting raids from cythera thucydides comments that in the aftermath of the defeat on sphacteria sparta became more timid than at any time before and she lost confidence in sicily a truce was agreed between the sicilian cities but when the three athenian generals there sophocles humedon and pythodorus returned to athens with this news they were prosecuted for not subduing all of sicily on athens behalf such was the hubris of the athenians athens also launched a daring raid to capture but this was ultimately unsuccessful, thwarted by the actions of Brasidas, who was at Corinth preparing for an expedition to Thrace.
Nick BarkerHOST
He too would be a thorn in Athens' side, and humiliate them at Amphipolis later in the year, and until 422.
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Philosophers, poets, painters observe these ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled by it.
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The departure for Cythera, exclaims Watteau, Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois who have flitted away into the azure sky.
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Diderot stretches out his arms to all those love idylls, and Durfee mingles druids with them.
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After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our memory at this moment, and which at that epoch was attracting all Paris to St.
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Philosophers, poets, painters observe these ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled by it.
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The departure for Cythera, exclaims Watteau, Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois who have flitted away into the azure sky.
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Diderot stretches out his arms to all those love idylls, and D'Urfé mingles druids with them.
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After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our memory at this moment, and which at that epoch was attracting all Paris to St.
Moiya McTierHOST
Like the planet Venus.
Moiya McTierHOST
Because Kythera is the island, said to be the island, where Venus or Aphrodite first set foot when she emerged from the sea foam.
Moiya McTierHOST
Right.
Moiya McTierHOST
So Kytherian for things related to Venus.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
And they kept saying so.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
They knew she came from the east, with islands like Cyprus and Crete and Kythera, which is this little-known glorified rock off the coast of the Peloponnese, which for some reason turned out to be a hugely important centre for her.
Ronald HuttonGUEST
So you have these islands which mark the route by which she comes into Greece.
Tim HaigHOST
You mentioned cosmetics, and you also discussed nudity in the iconography.
MarySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Alan LawleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the sky where'er he be on water or on land under pale suns or climes that flames enfold one of chrysone or of cythera's band shadowy beggar or croesus rich with gold citizen peasant student tramp whate'er his little brain may be alive or dead man knows the fear of mystery everywhere and peeps with trembling glances overhead the heaven above a strangling cavern wall the lightened ceiling of a music-hall where every actor treads a bloody soil The hermit's hope, the terror of the sod, The sky, the blackened lid of the mighty pot, Where the vast human generations boil.
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spleen i am like some king in whose corrupted veins flows aged blood who rules a land of rains who young in years is old in all distress he flees good counsel to find weariness among his dogs and playthings who is stirred neither by hunting hound nor hunting bird whose weary face emotion moves no more e'en when his people die before his door his favourite jester's most fantastic wile upon that sick cruel face can raise no smile the courtly dames to whom all kings are good can lighten this young skeleton's dull mood no more with shameless toilets in his gloom even his lilied bed becomes a tomb the sage who takes his gold assays in vain to purge away the old corrupted strain his baths of blood that in days of old the romans used when their hot blood grew cold will never warm this dead man's bloodless pains for green lethean water fills his veins End of poem.
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Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Philosophers, poets, painters observe these ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled by it.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
The departure for Cythera exclaims Watteau.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois who have flitted away into the azure sky.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Diderot stretches out his arms to all those love idylls, and Durfee mingles druids with them.
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This belief with the fame of the maiden's loveliness went daily farther into distant lands, so that many people were drawn together to behold that glorious model of the age.
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Men sailed no longer to Paphos, to Cnidus, or Cythera, to the presence of the goddess Venus.
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Her sacred rites were neglected, her images stood uncrowned, the cold ashes were left to disfigure her forsaken altars.
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It was to a maiden that men's prayers were offered, to a human countenance they looked, in propitiating so great a godhead.
NemoNARRATOR
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SoniaNARRATOR
The Departure for Cythera by L.
SoniaNARRATOR
Read for LibriVox.org by Sonia.
SoniaNARRATOR
The Departure for Cythera.
SoniaNARRATOR
Ere they parted for Cythera, when the spring had reached its bloom, Phyllis, Doris, and Niera peeped into their pictured room.
SoniaNARRATOR
Wished to go, yet wished to linger, lifted each a taper finger, threw a kiss towards their portraits set in walls of rose brocade.
SoniaNARRATOR
Where the beaches lift a curtain over shifting sunlit scenes, they with footsteps light and certain used to dance like fairy queens.
SoniaNARRATOR
Chipped are now the scrolls of plaster, which a skilled Italian master molded all along the cornice and with tips of gold overlaid.
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