MythsUnderstood: Aphrodite

di Duff Broxby (Autore)

Duff Broxby, 2026

Everyone wanted something from Aphrodite. The moment she rose from the sea, kings, gods, and poets decided what she represented long before anyone bothered to ask who she was. She became beauty. Desire. Temptation. A prize to be won, a political bargaining chip, a convenient explanation for everyone else's choices. No one asked what she wanted. Forced into a marriage she never chose, drawn toward the only person who seemed to see her as more than an ornament, and blamed for the passions of gods and mortals alike, Aphrodite begins to question the story the world has always told about her. Was she truly the cause of so much chaos—or merely the face people gave to desires they refused to own? From the Judgment of Paris and Helen of Troy to her affair with Ares, her marriage to Hephaestus, and the countless myths told in her name, Aphrodite reexamines the moments that defined her reputation with honesty, wit, and hard-earned self-awareness. MYTHSUNDERSTOOD: APHRODITE is the goddess of love's own account of beauty, desire, identity, and the painful discovery that being wanted by everyone is not the same thing as being known by anyone. It is a story about agency, belonging, and learning that love begins only after a person is finally seen for who they really are.

• Autore: Duff Broxby
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Duff Broxby
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235423992