Venus (goddess/force of desire)
“goddess/force of desire”
deity figure · 1 work · 1 mention · 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.
After the freely-wandering Venus, or
Venus subdues the pangs in midst of love,
Thus, one who gets a stroke from Venus ' shafts-