Demetrios Poliorketes, Son of Poseidon and Aphrodite. Cosmic and Memorial Significance in the Athenian Ithyphallic Hymn.

This article offers understanding and reassessment of the parentage attributed to Demetrios Poliorketes in the ithyphallic hymn delivered to him at Athens in 291/0 BCE. This parentage, namely Poseidon and Aphrodite, and its significance have received only superficial or dismissive treatment in modem...

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Published in:	Mnemosyne Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 370 - 391
Main Author:	Holton, John Russell
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2014
Subjects:	Demetrius I, Poliorcetes, King of Macedonia, 336 B.C.-283 B.C. Poseidon (Greek deity) Aphrodite (Greek deity) Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) Greek hymns (Christianity)
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