Venus (goddess/force of desire)
“goddess/force of desire”
deity figure · 1 work · 1 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Aphrodite · Venus · our Venuses
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
Venus, both as goddess/mythic figure and as Lucretius's naturalized name for erotic craving and the reproductive drive, recurring throughout the love/generation section of the passage.
The lovers.
In the stout links of Venus.
Yet lack the fruits of Venus;