Aphrodite's garments and jewelry
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
brooches · bright garments · earrings · girdle · gold · necklaces · rich clothes · robe
in the texts
Hecuba
Golden dress-pins the Trojan women seize and use to stab out Polymestor's eyes, blinding him.
for they took their brooches and stabbed the hapless pupils of my eyes, making them gush with blood, and then fled through the chambers;
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Aphrodite's garments and jewelry display her beauty, support her alluring disguise, and are removed and restored around the union with Anchises.
and round her soft throat were lovely necklaces.
For she was clad in a robe out-shining the brightness of fire, a splendid robe of gold, enriched with all manner of needlework, which shimmered like the moon over her tender breasts, a marvel to see.
And laughter-loving Aphrodite put on all her rich clothes, and when she had decked herself with gold, she left sweet-smelling Cyprus and went in haste towards Troy, swiftly travelling high up among the clouds.