Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. [1] Macrobius [2] 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 Aphroditus). [3] The idea of Venus thus being a mixture of the male and female nature seems to belong to a very late period of antiquity. [4]
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. [5]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). " Barbata". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. [1] Macrobius [2] 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 Aphroditus). [3] The idea of Venus thus being a mixture of the male and female nature seems to belong to a very late period of antiquity. [4]
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. [5]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). " Barbata". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.