attributes of love and life (Schefold 15). Between the 6th century B.C. and the 1st century A.D.,

she was frequently used as a subject matter in Greek and Hellenistic art. During that period,

goddesses related to Aphrodite were often seen in Near Eastern art as well. In fact, Aphrodite's

origins can be found in the goddess Astarte, who was worshipped by the Phoenicians. The

Assyrians, who controlled the Near East up to the end of the seventh century B.C., worshipped a

goddess named Ishtar who was similar in many ways to Aphrodite. The Babylonians adapted Ishtar

to their pantheon and, like the Assyrians, considered her to be not only the goddess of love and life,

but also of warfare (Ghirshman 393). The Persians, who took control of the region in 539 B.C., had

a goddess named Anahita. This goddess, like Ishtar, held dominion over love and fertility.

Furthermore, Anahita, like Ishtar, not only "ensured the continuity of life" but "was at the same time

a goddess of war" (Ghirshman 250). This paradox of a goddess ruling warfare as

deities in Greece were soon "assimilated into a new and unmistakably Greek idiom" (Honour and

Ghirshman, Roman. Persia: From the Origins to Alexander the Great. Stuart Gilbert and James

Aphrodite of Cnidus "reveals a richly variegated movement conditioned by a greater flexibility of the

somewhat stiff and unrealistic. The Aphrodite Urania (from the 5th century B.C.) is representative of

the goddess' protection of life. In addition, the gesture of modesty serves as a symbol for the

offering them "to the world in a timeless sacred gesture, a reminder to all that it is through the breast

or "modesty" pose. Particularly found among nude depictions of the goddess, this gesture shows

during the early fourth century, was an important figure in this revolutionary new style. Praxiteles

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