...Hérica Valladares The Sandal-Binder Aphrodite, a witty variation on Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos , is one of the most frequently reproduced sculptural types in Greco-Roman art. Created in a variety of materials throughout the Mediterranean, extant versions of this iconography show the goddess...

... Sappho s poetic world.6 Sappho s prepositional use complements other formal ele- ments of this poem, such as the cletic hymn structure.7 In accordance with the char- acteristics of this genre, the poem s invocation constitutes a set of fixed relations that defines Aphrodite as divine addressee and Sappho...