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Venus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /; Classical Latin: [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠] Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvɛ(ː)nus]) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.
Venus Obsequens ("Compliant Venus" [1]) was the first Venus for whom a shrine was built in ancient Rome. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Little is known of her cult [ 5 ] beyond the circumstances of her temple founding and a likely connection to the Vinalia Rustica , an August wine festival.
Venus, goddess of love, beauty, sexuality, and gardens; mother of the founding hero Aeneas; one of the Dii Consentes. Veritas, goddess and personification of the Roman virtue of veritas or truth. Verminus, god of cattle worms. Vertumnus, Vortumnus or Vertimnus, god of the seasons, and of gardens and fruit trees.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the ... Minerva, Hercules, Venus, and deities of lesser rank, ...
3D reconstruction of the temple as seen from the Colosseum. It was set on a platform measuring 145 metres (476 ft) x 100 metres (330 ft). The peripteral temple itself measured 110 metres (360 ft) x 53 metres (174 ft) and 31 metres (102 ft) high (counting the statues) and consisted of two main chambers (), each housing a cult statue of a god—Venus, the goddess of love, and Roma, the goddess ...
Mazarin Venus, a statuary type popular in the 2nd century AD that evokes the ritual of bathing. Venus Verticordia ("Changer of Hearts" [1] or "Heart-Turner" [2]) was an aspect of the Roman goddess Venus conceived as having the power to convert either virgins or sexually active women from dissolute desire (libido) [3] to sexual virtue (). [4]
The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices [1]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome.
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. [1] Macrobius [ 2 ] also mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus , representing the goddess with a beard, in female attire, but resembling in her whole figure that of a man (see also Aphroditus ). [ 3 ]