Venus Barbata, or bearded Venus, was an epithet of the Roman goddess Venus. The Roman writer Macrobius mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus that portrayed the goddess with a beard and in female attire, but resembling in her whole figure that of a man, an image combining male and female nature that appears to belong to a very late period of antiquity. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Attestation
Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 2 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Function
Domain / Function Identity
GenderAndrogynous / dual-gendered 2 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press
Wikipedia, "Venus Barbata"
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