The document discusses various aspects of the sea and port of Viareggio, Italy including beaches, shipyards, docks, port authorities, and a channel. It also lists several Italian names.
The document discusses various aspects of the sea and port of Viareggio, Italy including beaches, shipyards, docks, port authorities, and a channel. It also lists several Italian names.
This document lists various landmarks and attractions in a town, including schools, a clock, pinewood, an open-air market, shops, a cinema, Museum Blanck, Mazzini square, a train station, municipality building, a statue of the Virgin Mary, and hotels.
This document discusses sports facilities such as a stadium, community swimming pool, and sports hall that could provide opportunities for the local community to participate in sports and recreation activities. It mentions Vasco Zappelli, who may be involved with these sports facilities. The sports hall is referenced twice, indicating it is a key facility being proposed or discussed.
This document lists various landmarks and attractions in a town, including schools, a clock, pinewood, an open-air market, shops, a cinema, Museum Blanck, Mazzini square, a train station, municipality building, a statue of the Virgin Mary, and hotels.
This document discusses sports facilities such as a stadium, community swimming pool, and sports hall that could provide opportunities for the local community to participate in sports and recreation activities. It mentions Vasco Zappelli, who may be involved with these sports facilities. The sports hall is referenced twice, indicating it is a key facility being proposed or discussed.
2. Afrodite era la dea della bellezza e dell’amore, che i
Romani identificarono con Venere. Secondo Omero
era figlia di Zeus e della ninfa Dione, mentre secondo
Esiodo era nata in primavera dalla spuma del mare (dal
greco aphrós, schiuma), fecondata dai genitali di
Urano, scagliati in mare da Crono, che si era ribellato
al padre e lo aveva evirato.
3. Appena la dea emerse nuda dalle onde, sopra una
conchiglia di madreperla, Zefiro la spinse sulla riva
dell’isola di Cipro (onde l’appellativo di Ciprigna, oltre
a quello di Anadiomene, l’emersa). Era adorata come
Afrodite Urania, simbolo dell’amore puro e celestiale, o
come Afrodite Pandemia, la dea dell’amore sensuale.
4. Il suo culto fu molto diffuso e dai luoghi dove veniva
adorata le derivarono altri soprannomi. Fu chiamata
Citerea, da Citera, ma il suo culto fiorì anche a Corinto,
ad Argo, sul monte Erice.
5. Quando mosse i suoi primi passi sull’isola, le andarono
incontro le Ore, le Cariti o Grazie e altre divinità, che si
misero al suo servizio come ancelle e l’agghindarono
con vesti e gemme preziose. Quindi la dea fu portata
sull’Olimpo, dove fu accolta con ammirazione e giubilo
da tutti gli dei, a eccezione delle invidiose Era e Atena.