Shades of Aphrodite: In Search of the Golden Apple

Part travel adventure and part historical narrative—with a pinch of mystical philosophy thrown in for good measure, Shades of Aphrodite is an adventure through past and present Hellenic metaphysical consciousness as seen through Greece’s religious practices. Paul Kiritsis, himself of Greek origin and a student of the metaphysical, tells several interwoven stories of a man traveling through his ancestral land, the evolution of the archetypal Mother Goddess in Greece, and a fictionalized account of Aphrodite herself and the legend of the Golden Apple, the instrument of discord that caused the Trojan War. His fusion of mythology, history, and first-person anecdote reflect the inextricably bound threads of Hellenic culture, everyday Greek life, and the worship of the Divine Feminine that persists even today.