Cypris · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

AlcestisClassical · Greek

Goddess of love (Aphrodite), invoked by Heracles as the sweetest of the gods, to whom mortals should pay tribute by enjoying life.

And to Cypris too, sweetest of the gods by far to man, thy tribute pay, for kindly is her mood.

alcestis ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

Aphrodite, goddess of love, who won the Judgment of Paris with a deceitful promise and is elsewhere invoked as the power behind erotic infidelity.

But Cypris won the day by her deceitful promises, sweet-sounding words, but fraught with ruthless overthrow to Phrygia’s hapless town and Ilium’s towers.

andromache ¶

my dear lord Hector, for thy sake would I e’en brook a rival, if ever Cypris led thee astray, and oft in days gone by I held thy bastard babes to my own breast, to spare thee any cause for grief.

andromache ¶

ElectraClassical · Greek

Aphrodite, invoked by the Peasant as witness to his sexual restraint toward Electra.

But I have never (Cypris knows this too) dishonored her in bed;

electra ¶

IonClassical · Greek

Goddess of love invoked in Creusa's monody as the one Apollo's assault was meant to please.

and by my lily wrist didst thou catch me and ledst me to the cavern’s bed, what time I cried aloud upon my mother’s name,—thou a god to mate with me in shameless wise to pleasure lady Cypris!

ion ¶

Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

The goddess Aphrodite, recalled by Iphigenia as one of the three contestants in the judgment of Paris.

Cypris, proud of the longing she causes,

iphigenia in aulis ¶

Pallas of her prowess; and Hera of her royal marriage with king Zeus; to decide a hateful strife about their beauty; but it is my death, maidens, bringing, it is true, glory to the Danaids, that Artemis has received as an offering, before they begin the voyage to Ilium.

iphigenia in aulis ¶

The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

Goddess of love (Aphrodite), who won the Judgment of Paris by promising him Helen and is blamed by Helen for the affair.

Punish the goddess, show yourself more mighty even than Zeus, who, though he lords it over the other gods, is her slave;

the trojan women ¶

for every folly that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, and rightly does her name begin the word for senselessness;

the trojan women ¶

but Cypris spoke in rapture of my loveliness, and promised him this gift, if she should have the preference over those two for beauty.

the trojan women ¶