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Travel: In search of... mighty Aphrodite The Greek goddess of love was a beauty. Shame the same can't be said of her baths or temple. In fact, Adrian Mourby wasn't seduced by the sites where they celebrate her on Cyprus
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Aphrodite is mighty on Cyprus. Well, you can't blame them for
trying. Any island that has to boast Isaac Comnenus, St Spyridon and
good King Evagoras as national heroes will have a bit of an uphill
struggle when it comes to pulling in the cultural tourist. Thank God
for Aphrodite. According to both Ovid and Homer, the place she called
home was Balmy Cypressus and that was my destination, too.
So which way to the goddess of love?
While speeding west down the A6 from Larnaca, it was heartening
every so often to see large brown signs reminding me that this was
the right direction if I wanted ...
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Handbuch zur narrativen Volksaufklärung: Moralische Geschichten, 1780-1848
Magazine article from: Marvels & Tales
; ...Wahrheit dadurch gleichsam beweist, erlutert und so als lebenspraktische Orientierungshilfe dient. Der Pdagoge Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790) schtzte die moralische Geschichte, weil sie nicht nur den Verstand, sondern zugleich auch die...
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ABECEDARIANS Unite for SPELLING BOARDS!
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; ...Europe where they were baked in intricately-carved wooden cookie molds. 18th century German education reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow put a slightly different spin on the idea by proposing that schools employ special bakers to supply youngsters...
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