god
Venus
also: Венера
Roman goddess of love and desire; invoked alongside Bacchus as the fitting deities for the evening's drunken gallantry.
Reading notes
- Idyll §24 marble Venus
Roman goddess of love and desire; here a decorative statue on the staircase whose painted/marble smile mockingly presides over the narrator's disgraced fall from the gambling house.
- On March §18 Venus
Roman goddess of love and beauty, given her own satirical 'biographical' entry parallel to Mars's and Cybele's.
- On April §12 statue of Venus
Continues the piece's running gag (shared with the sibling calendar-sketches on March and May) of pairing each spring month with Venus as patroness of romance and examination-season distraction.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 1891. Florence. §3 Florence with her Medici Venus
Florence, the letter's own dateline and the trip's next stop, personified via the Venus de' Medici (Венера Медицейская; god:venus), a celebrated Hellenistic marble statue of Venus then and now held in the Uffizi -- one of the most famous antique sculptures in Europe, standing in for the city itself.
- Modern Prayers §11 Venus
Roman goddess of love and desire; invoked alongside Bacchus as the fitting deities for the evening's drunken gallantry.