Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her previous books include Venus and Aphrodite (shortlisted for the Runciman Award), Istanbul (a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Runciman Award), The Hemlock Cup (a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Writers Guild award) and Helen Of Troy. All her books have been translated into multiple languages. She has made many documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, ABC and the Discovery and History channels. Bettany has been a Professor at the New College of Humanities and Research Fellow at King's College London. She has been honoured with numerous awards including the Medlicott Medal for services to history, Europe's Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history.
Erudition, with an erotic frisson ... In this lively, wide-ranging
book, Hughes paints a portrait of a darker Venus, a violent,
vengeful "shape-shifting" Venus, with salt in her hair and surf at
her feet
*THE TIMES*
An intriguing tale that tracks the gorgeous and omnipresent Venus
of western civilisation back 6,000 years ... engrossing
*THE SPECTATOR*
A marvellous biography of a goddess that delves beneath her passive
modern image ... Hughes's account of Aphrodite's early evolution
forms the most fascinating sections of this superb book
*BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE*
Explore the mythological Goddess of Love with this stunning book by
historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. She looks at the origins,
archaeological revelations and philosophical implications of the
woman known to the Romans as Venus, and to the Greeks as
Aphrodite
*WOMAN & HOME*
Gorgeously produced . . . The value of the book lies . . . in its
pleasurable selection of interesting objects
on which to reflect, and fascinating nuggets of information
*TLS*
Whether we know her as the Roman Venus or the Greek Aphrodite, the
goddess of love and lust is as powerful today as she has always
been. In this beautifully illustrated book, TV historian Bettany
Hughes traces Venus-Aphrodite back to her beginnings and follows
her career over millennia, right up to the present day.
*FORTEAN TIMES*
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