| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Venus Barbata ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Venus Barbata
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans.〔Servius. ad Aen, ii. 632.〕 Macrobius〔Saturnalia. iii. 8〕 also mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus, representing the goddess with a beard, in female attire, but resembling in her whole figure that of a man (see also Aphroditos).〔Comp. Suidas, ''s. v.'' ; Hesych. ''s. v.'' 〕 The idea of Venus thus being a mixture of the male and female nature seems to belong to a very late period of antiquity.〔Voss, Mythol. Briefe, ii. p. 282, &c.〕 In certain forms Venus was depicted as physically androgynous:
On her native Cyprus, Aphrodite was worshipped as the Venus Barbata, the Bearded Venus... . Elsewhere as Venus Calva or Bald Venus, Aphrodite was shown with a man's bald head, just like the priests of Isis. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditos, a Cypriot male name. Aphrodite appeared in battle armour in Sparta... () Venus Armata or Armed Venus became a Renaissance convention.〔Paglia 1992, 87〕
The idea of Venus having a double-sexed nature has the same double meaning, in the mythological sense, that there is not only a Luna, but also a Lunus. The name ''Venus'' in itself, is masculine in its termination, and it was perceived that the goddess becomes the god and the god the goddess sometimes.〔Hargrave 1884, p. 234〕
Often her male followers are emasculated: in her incarnation as Aphrodite Urania, she destroys a king who mates with her upon a mountain top, 'as a queen-bee destroys the drone: by tearing out his sexual organs' and as Cybele, 'the Phrygian Aphrodite of Mount Ida' she is worshipped as a 'queen-bee' – her priests mutilating themselves via acts of 'ecstatic self-castration'.〔Graves 1992, 71〕
==See also==
*Venus Castina
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Venus Barbata」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|