Kiss and Tell

Genre/Style: Maroon 5

Touchstones: Maroon 5, “Makes Me Wonder,” “Wake Up Call,” “This Love”

Themes: Love/lust, gender and reversal, human/divine hierarchy, Caesarian politics, fictive kinship

Myth: Anchises and Aphrodite

Notable Telling: Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (late 7th to early 6th C. BCE)