Like the mythical figure of Venus
Anadyomene rising out the sea, Chyna Gibson emerged from Hurricane Katrina larger than life.
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Anadyomene wrightii - + - - Boergesenia forbesii - + + - Caulacanthus sp.
ULVOPHYCEAE Anadyomenaceae
Anadyomene menziesii (J.E.
The Aphrodite worshiped on the Acrocorinth was Aphrodite Hoplismene (Armed), the defender of the city Images on coins, a wall fresco, and statuary remains depict Aphrodite looking at her reflection in the shield of Ares, affirming her image as the military protector of the city Other manifestations include Aphrodite
Anadyomene (Rising from the Sea), referring to the story of Aphrodite's birth as a grown woman from the sea and connecting her with Poseidon and the sea in mercantile Corinth (Williams, "Corinth" 98).
Other images of the goddess show her hair completely unbound, usually in the context of her birth from the sea, the so-called Aphrodite
Anadyomene (Fig.
In the motifs of classical art, such as the figure of Venus
Anadyomene, the sea shell symbolizes the female vulva, an erotic theme that Mazzotti recasts from Botticelli's famous image of Venus rising from the sea.
An example of a new species of green algae collected on the same expedition is
Anadyomene howei Littler & Littler (Anadyomenaceae): http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ vh/specimen.php?irn=960066.
We report the appearance and establishment of another green algae
Anadyomene stellata (Wulfen in Jacq.) C.
He examines Botticelli's idealised female beauties and so-called mythological canvases in the light of popular poetry and classical models' canons of female beauty: Luigi Pulci's wonderful frottola describing the contents of two galleys carrying ladies' wardrobes to a villa retreat outside Florence, for example, and Politian's descriptions of the Venus
Anadyomene. I was particularly struck by Dempsey's argument for reclassifying Botticelli's 'mythological' paintings as favole or fables, a term which better captures the full range of their inspiration and limits them less to their classical sources.