Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Many are familiar with this adage, but such ideas were already commonplace by the time of Homer. A famous passage in the Odyssey describes the illicit affair between Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus) entrapped in flagrante delicto much to the amusement of the other gods.
Were such tales inspired by the actual appearance or witnessed behavior of the planets Mars and Venus? Comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane presents a bold challenge to conventional astronomy with his historical reconstruction of Mars and Venus based on the written testimony of ancient skywatchers.
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