Aphrodite of Menophantos of the immortals at a moment not of their choosing, must pay dearly for the sight". Callimachus tells the story of a young man named Actaeon, who came upon the virgin Goddess Artemis while she was bathing. For punishment he was hacked to death by his own dogs. In the same Hymn, Teiresias is struck blind because he inadvertently sees Athena bathing in a mountain stream. Thus it is possible that Aphrodite in this statue conceals her nudity in order to protect herself from observers seeing her. Aphrodite of Menophantos The Aphrodite of Menophantos is a Roman marble statue of
When Washington Was in Vogue due to its formulaic plotlines, others saw Williams’s analysis of intra-racial social politics as a fascinating window into the period. "Publishers Weekly" heralded it as “an invaluable addition to period scholarship”, while a laudatory review in "The Crisis" said the novel was “a welcome and consistently entertaining glimpse of a pivotal era”. With Christina Moore’s 2013 “Traditional Rebirth: The Epistolary Genre in When Washington Was in Vogue,” published in "African American Review", the novel (as a published whole) received its first scholarly treatment outside of McKible’s own work. When Washington Was in Vogue When Washington Was in Vogue is a