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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7883773, member: 99456"]Genius in general is a concept that I only barely grasp - a mix of spirit, angel, personification, or soul.</p><p><br /></p><p>The genius of Apollo Veiovis as described by Babelon, I take to be an aspect of Apollo Veiovis and I still consider that there might be some connection to death or afterlife and Erotes riding goats.</p><p><br /></p><p>Liv Mariah Yarrow adds another thought to this with <a href="https://livyarrow.org/tag/eros-riding-goat/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://livyarrow.org/tag/eros-riding-goat/" rel="nofollow">Aphrodite Pandemos, mentioned in her blog</a>, quoting <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias6B.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias6B.html" rel="nofollow">Pausanias</a>.</p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>"The precinct of the other Aphrodite is surrounded by a wall, and within the precinct has been made a basement, upon which sits a bronze image of Aphrodite upon a bronze he-goat. It is a work of Scopas, and the Aphrodite is named Common. The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess."</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The Dioscuri as reference to Tusculum I can understand, however with the rest I quickly return to <b>"this remains indeed obscure to me."</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7883773, member: 99456"]Genius in general is a concept that I only barely grasp - a mix of spirit, angel, personification, or soul. The genius of Apollo Veiovis as described by Babelon, I take to be an aspect of Apollo Veiovis and I still consider that there might be some connection to death or afterlife and Erotes riding goats. Liv Mariah Yarrow adds another thought to this with [URL='https://livyarrow.org/tag/eros-riding-goat/']Aphrodite Pandemos, mentioned in her blog[/URL], quoting [URL='https://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias6B.html']Pausanias[/URL]. [SIZE=4] [I]"The precinct of the other Aphrodite is surrounded by a wall, and within the precinct has been made a basement, upon which sits a bronze image of Aphrodite upon a bronze he-goat. It is a work of Scopas, and the Aphrodite is named Common. The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess."[/I][/SIZE] The Dioscuri as reference to Tusculum I can understand, however with the rest I quickly return to [B]"this remains indeed obscure to me."[/B][/QUOTE]
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