Venus Barbata
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. Macrobius 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 Aphroditos). The idea of Venus thus being a mixture of the male and female nature seems to belong to a very late period of antiquity. In certain forms Venus was depicted as physically androgynous:
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Venus Barbata
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. Macrobius 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 Aphroditos). The idea of Venus thus being a mixture of the male and female nature seems to belong to a very late period of antiquity. In certain forms Venus was depicted as physically androgynous:
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Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus' ...... ted as physically androgynous:
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