Aphrodite
quoted 12 times by 5 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Aphrodite the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
11 quoted · 1 reported
12 neutralin the voice of Dione 2 , Hera 2 , Ares 1 , Diomedes 1 , Helen 1 , Hephaistos 1 , Ladice 1 , Nurse 1 , Zeus 1 , hymnic speaker 1
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5 works-
in the voice of Dione
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Iliad Homer 7 neutral 7 citations · 8 passages
A direct speech act by Dione to Aphrodite is narrated with an introductory speech-tag.
but Aphrodite flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, "Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?
book 5 ¶ -
in the voice of Ares
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Odyssey Homer 2 neutral 2 citations
Within Demodokos's song, Ares speaks directly to Aphrodite.
Now Aphrodite was just come in from a visit to her father Zeus, and was about sitting down when Ares came inside the house, and said as he took her hand in his own, "Let us go to the couch of Hephaistos:
book 8 ¶ -
in the voice of Nurse
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Hippolytus Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation
A discrete emotional outburst directly quoted as the Nurse's immediate reaction to the confession.
Cypris, it seems, is not a goddess after all, but something greater far, for she hath been the ruin of my lady and of me and our whole family.
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in the voice of Ladice
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The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports the content of Ladice's silent vow to Aphrodite as a specific promise.
So Ladice, when the king did not relent at all although she denied it, vowed in her heart to Aphrodite that, if Amasis could have intercourse with her that night, since that would remedy the problem, she would send a statue to Cyrene to her.
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in the voice of hymnic speaker
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Hymn 6 to Aphrodite Homeric Hymns 1 neutral 1 citation
The paragraph includes a first-person address to Aphrodite with a greeting and request.
Grant that I may gain the victory in this contest, and order you my song.
hymn 6 to aphrodite ¶
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