Archive for October, 2017
The charms of Aphrodite codified in the First Greek Sex Manual
Image from Greek drinking up 500 BC.
If you were ever in doubt about the realism of a Temple of Aphrodite with one thousand sacred prostitutes as I describe in The Emerald Tablet, you might enjoy this article drawn from Greek texts. Long before the kama sutra, a fair number of Greek women, both famous and unknown, codified in great detail the arts of love and carnal pleasure.
In this instance, the serving girl of the renown Helen of Troy, kidnapped wife of Menalaos, is credited with discovering positions for intercourse and other wanton acts.
Oculus in Aphrodite’s Temple in Korinth as featured in The Emerald Tablet
The oculus of the Temple of Aphrodite of Korinth featured in the early chapters of The Emerald Tablet might have looked very similar to this ceiling of the grand foyer at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
Oculus at Altes Museum Berlin
S. L. Gore 