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The Greek Goddess Aphrodite has numerous equivalents: Inanna (Sumerian counterpart), Ishtar (Babylon), Astarte (Syro-Palestinian), Turan (Etruscan) and Venus (Roman). She has parallels to Indo-European dawn goddesses such as Ushas or Aurora.
The name Ἀφροδίτη was connected by popular etymology with ἀφρός "foam", interpreting it as "risen from the foam" and embodying it in an etiological myth that was already known to Hesiod[1]. It has reflexes in Messapic and Etruscan (whence April), which were probably loaned from Greek. Though Herodotus was aware of the Phoenician origins of Aphrodite,[2] linguistic attempts to derive the name Aphrodite from Semitic Aštoret, via undocumented Hittite transmission, remain inconclusive. A suggestion by Hammarström[3], rejected by Hjalmar Frisk, connects the name with πρύτανις, a loan into Greek from a cognate of Etruscan (e)pruni, "lord" or similar. By the late fifth century, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Urania, born from the foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite "of all the folk", born from Zeus and Dione.[4] Among the neo-Platonists and eventually their Christian interpreters, Aphrodite Urania figures as the celestial Aphrodite, representing the love of body and soul, while Aphrodite Pandemos is associated with mere physical love.
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The name Ἀφροδίτη was connected by popular etymology with ἀφρός "foam", interpreting it as "risen from the foam" and embodying it in an etiological myth that was already known to Hesiod[1]. It has reflexes in Messapic and Etruscan (whence April), which were probably loaned from Greek. Though Herodotus was aware of the Phoenician origins of Aphrodite,[2] linguistic attempts to derive the name Aphrodite from Semitic Aštoret, via undocumented Hittite transmission, remain inconclusive. A suggestion by Hammarström[3], rejected by Hjalmar Frisk, connects the name with πρύτανις, a loan into Greek from a cognate of Etruscan (e)pruni, "lord" or similar. By the late fifth century, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Urania, born from the foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite "of all the folk", born from Zeus and Dione.[4] Among the neo-Platonists and eventually their Christian interpreters, Aphrodite Urania figures as the celestial Aphrodite, representing the love of body and soul, while Aphrodite Pandemos is associated with mere physical love.
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