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In the early twentieth century, stories of Aphrodite were used by feminist poets, [307] such as Amy Lowell and Alicia Ostriker.In the extant ancient depictions of the Judgement of Paris, Aphrodite is only occasionally represented nude, and Athena and Hera are always fully clothed.
Some early comparative mythologists opposed to the idea of a Near Eastern origin argued that Aphrodite originated as an aspect of the Greek dawn goddess Eos [44] [45] and that she was therefore ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess * H aéusōs (properly Greek Eos, Latin Aurora, Sanskrit Ushas). L. (1997), The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth, Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, p. Aphrodite's most common cultic epithet was Ourania, meaning "heavenly", [52] [53] but this epithet almost never occurs in literary texts, indicating a purely cultic significance. In different versions of the story, the boar was either sent by Ares, who was jealous that Aphrodite was spending so much time with Adonis, or by Artemis, who wanted revenge against Aphrodite for having killed her devoted follower Hippolytus.During the Hellenistic period, the Greeks identified Aphrodite with the ancient Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Isis.