Tony Harrison: The Gifts of Aphrodite

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*The Gifts of Aphrodite*	The London Review of Books 23.1 (4 Jan 2001), p.10	406-7

Allusion to Classical figure Aphrodite

Allusion to Classical place The Baths of Aphrodite

Relationship to Classical text Harvesting scene, Mediterranean setting ‘At the baths of Aphrodite / where bathing’s forbidden’.

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Sensual descriptions of gifts of fruit link Aphrodite with the biblical Eve.

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970