Aphrodite : ancient manners / by Pierre Louÿs ; freely translated from the French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louÿs, Pierre, 1870-1925.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aphrodite. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Venus (Roman deity).

Venus.

Mythology, Greek.

Goddesses, Greek.

Aphrodite (Greek deity).

Aphrodite.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

[Mcfowen], Constance (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Muir, Constance M. (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Muir, Karl Andrew (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 258 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Privately printed for subscribers only, 1919.

Contents:

Chrysis

On the jetty of Alexandria

Demetrios

Passer-by

Mirror, the comb, and the necklace

Virgins

Chrysis' hair

Gardens of the goddess

Melitta

Scruples

Moonlight

Invitation

Rose of Chrysis

Tale of the enchanted lyre

Arrival

Dinner

Rhacotis

Bacchanalia at Bacchis'

Crucified one

Enthusiasm

Cleopatra

Demetrios' dream

Terror

Crowd

Response

Garden of Hermes-Anubis

Walls of crimson

Supreme night

Dust returns to the earth

Chrysis immortal

Pity

Piety.

Notes:

Translation of Aphrodite.

"This edition is limited to fifteen hundred copies, issued to subscribers only."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Constance [Mcfowen] 1921" on front pastedown.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Ex Libris Constance M. and Karl Andrew Muir" on front pastedown.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has loose boards.

OCLC:

6459023