| One day, when Atossa was listening to the music coming from the old lamp next to her throne, it suddenly stopped and Atossa stood up and went beside the lamp to see what was wrong. |
| As soon as she was close enough to pick up the lamp, a voice came from inside, it was the genie of the lamp. "Oh Divine Princess what is your wish?" Atossa had been thinking all day about how she might test the slave Democedes to see if he was truly faithfull to her. "Magic Genie of the lamp, my wish is to have the body of a Goddess, a body that no man can resist" |
| The Genie told her to touch the lamp, and no sooner than she touched it, she was tranformed into the Goddess Aphrodite. |
| "Oh Magic Genie of the Lamp, this is perfect, no man can resist such a body!" |
| The Genie of the lamp said that anytime Atossa touched the lamp she would become Aphrodite and anytime Aphrodite touched the lamp she would return to being Atossa. |
| Atossa waited in front of her throne for Democedes to arrive, her mind was busy with ideas of what she might say to him when he arrived, but in fact, when the time came, Aphrodite herself put the words into Atossa's mouth. |
