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 Jun 22 2009, 06:25 AM
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Imperator  Group: Triumviri Posts: 4245 Joined: 24-June 03 From: Santicum Member No.: 1  |
Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. What drives men and women to such madness? Scientists serve us some tripe on hormones and biological impulses, but our ancestors knew the truth. Love and beauty, and the all consuming desire they produce, are the products of a sensual goddess and her boy archer. Really, who could believe otherwise? Andrew Dalby leaves all doubt behind as he serves us a highly readable biography of the goddess Venus...
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Jun 22 2009, 07:05 PM
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Primus Pilus Group: Patricii Posts: 252 Joined: 4-June 07 From: Okanagan, Canada Member No.: 3709 |
QUOTE (Viggen @ Jun 22 2009, 06:25 AM)  Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. What drives men and women to such madness? Scientists serve us some tripe on hormones and biological impulses, but our ancestors knew the truth. Love and beauty, and the all consuming desire they produce, are the products of a sensual goddess and her boy archer. Really, who could believe otherwise? Andrew Dalby leaves all doubt behind as he serves us a highly readable biography of the goddess Venus... ...read the full review of Venus: A Biography by Andrew Dalby Cupid/Eros was not always the cuddly boy archer. According to Hesiod's theogony he was originally one of the primary forces of the universe, along with Tartarus, Gaia and Erebus. Without him Aphrodite/Venus would never have been born. |
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Jun 22 2009, 07:21 PM
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Praetor Urbanus Group: Patricii Posts: 3792 Joined: 29-June 04 From: Gens Ursi Member No.: 109 |
The opening paragraph was intended to be more a tongue-in-cheek teaser than a serious summary of the mythological corpus.
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Jun 23 2009, 07:18 PM
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Aedilis Group: Equites Posts: 839 Joined: 15-March 09 Member No.: 4257 |
QUOTE (Viggen @ Jun 22 2009, 08:25 AM) Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. Why the third person? |
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Jun 24 2009, 07:46 AM
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Aquilifer Group: Equites Posts: 181 Joined: 13-April 09 From: Formosa Member No.: 4277 |
QUOTE (sylla @ Jun 23 2009, 08:18 PM) QUOTE (Viggen @ Jun 22 2009, 08:25 AM) Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. Why the third person?Ursus is speaking as an outsider to "that business"  F  rmosus
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