Venus Pandemos

Shelley describes his marriage with Harriet as a yielding to the senses merely, in other words, as slavery to the Venus Pandemos.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Agathon resolves to cleave to him, but at this point Anteros, corresponding to Plato's Venus Pandemos, enters into rivalry with Eros for Agathon's love.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

The keeper of the Kildare Street Museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and plaster figures, also naked, representing the new nine muses, Commerce,

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Earthly Love, or to Venus Urania and Venus Pandemos -- a comparison which was manifestly unfair to both of them.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

He said that the poor lady became desperately enamored of his beauty and day by day assailed his continence, but that he was as deaf to her amorous entreaties as Adonis to the dear blandishments of Venus Pandemos.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

The cross, once an obscene pagan symbol, has been transformed from an emblem of reproduction into one of destruction; the "tents of the maidens" are struck; Corinth no longer implores the gods to increase the number and enhance the beauty of its courtesans; Venus Pandemos has given place to Our Lady of Pain, and the obscene Dionysius fled before a crucified Christ.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

But, meanwhile, Amaury's tendency towards "Volupté" has, after his first visit to Paris, led him to indulge in the worship of Venus Pandemos, _parallèlement_ with his more exalted passions.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

"Then she is no longer Aphrodite, but Venus Pandemos, and a wicked old harridan," answered Rorie.

Vixen, Volume III. 1875

Milton to the service of Urania, he never turns into a dirtier byway or back alley than the beaten path trodden occasionally by most of his kind which leads them on a passing errand of no unnatural devotion to the shrine of Venus Pandemos.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873