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Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mating, marriage, and the status of woman / by James Corin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![Aphrodite was in love [and mated] with Ares, the god of war, the gods Dionysus, Hermes, and Poseidon, and the mortals Anchises and Adonis.— Smith, Classical Dictionary. In Western Africa the women of the reigning families might have as many lovers as they wished, but were forbidden to degrade themselves by marriage.—Lubbock, Pre-Historic Times.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28118807_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
