Pandemic

pandemic English Etymology thumb|A statue of the Capitoline Venus in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy, which is regarded as a depiction of the Pandemic or earthly and sensual aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus. From en grc Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος Aphrodite Pandemos, from grc πάνδημος of or belonging to all the people, public + en -ic 1 suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’. See further at pandemic (etymology 1). Pronunciation en /pænˈdɛmɪk/ RP,GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pandemic.wav Southern England en ɛmɪk 3 en Pan dem ic Adjective - en Greek mythology Roman mythology Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual. en Pandemian en heavenly spiritual Uranian en w:Percy Bysshe Shelley The Banquet. Translated from Plato. w:Richard Herne Shepherd The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions In Two Volumes London Chatto and Windus,Piccadilly. a. 1822 1888 II 64 and 67 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.172996/page/n58/mode/1up 14155325 [page 64] The Love, therefore, which attends upon Venus Pandemos is, in truth, common to the vulgar, and presides over transient and fortuitous connexions, and is worshipped by the least excellent of mankind. The votaries of this deity seek the body rather than the soul, and the ignorant rather than the wise, disdaining all that is honourable and lovely, and considering how they shall best satisfy their sensual necessities. [page 67] That Pandemic lover who loves rather the body than the soul is worthless, nor can be constant and consistent, since he has placed his affections on that which has no stability. en Shelley’s Translation of ‘The Banquet’ of Plato The Monthly Chronicle; a National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art London Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,Paternoster-Row. January–June 1840 V 316–317 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9_PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA317 1113432124 The same distinction between an Uranian and a Pandemic Venus runs, as all those who have any acquaintance with the sculptures of the Greeks know, through their whole art. The latter [the Capitoline Venus] is the true Pandemic Venus, the perfect type of voluptuousness, soulless, animal beauty,— II She Stoops to Conquer 109 That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one. en w:Frank Kermode World Without End or Beginning The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction The Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities 1965 New York, N.Y. w:Oxford University Press 1967 783497266 Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxford University Press 2000 new 76 https://books.google.com/books?id=KNTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 978-0-19-513612-8 The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.] en Gerhard Joseph From Fatal Goddess to a God of Love Tennysonian Love: The Strange Diagonal Minneapolis, Minn. w:University of Minnesota Press 1969 footnote 8 141 https://books.google.com/books?id=_gG3ULvVYqYC&pg=PA141 489731165 For the complicated history of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite of whom the Venus genetrix, the creative and vivifying force of nature, and Venus, the goddess of erotic passion, are Roman versions, see "Aphrodite" and "Venus" in Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, . [Allen] Tate sees the attempt to reconcile the claims of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite as the lifelong concern of [John] Keats. en Nora Clark Aphrodite and Venus: Myth Timeless and Temporal Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear w:Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw7nBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 978-1-4438-7127-3 The Symposium [of Plato] presents strong and varied opinions on Aphrodite. Aristodemus reports Pausanias's speech on the Homeric and Hesiodic versions of the goddess's origins, and differentiates between the two loves and the two Aphrodites—the Pandemic one, daughter of Zeus, and the heavenly Uranic Aphrodite. Alternative forms en pandemic rare Translations of Aphrodite Pandemos en eponyms terms suffixed with -ic