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2. List of rape victims from ancient history and mythology

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   Hera; raped by her brother (and later husband) Zeus. Io; pursued and eventually raped by Zeus, transformed into a heifer. Leda, raped by Zeus in the form of a swan. [2] This resulted in the birth of Helen of Troy and Polydeuces (Pollux). Liriope; raped by the river god Cephissus, resulting in the birth of Narcissus.

3. Aphrodite - Wikipedia

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   Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

4. List of Greek deities - Wikipedia

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   She is the goddess of the sky, the wife and sister of Zeus, and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was usually depicted as a regal woman in the prime of her life, wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff. Although she is the goddess of marriage, Zeus's many infidelities drive her to jealousy and vengefulness.

5. Erotes - Wikipedia

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   The presence of Erotes in otherwise non-sexual images, such as of two women, has been interpreted to indicate a homoerotic subtext. [11] In the cult of Aphrodite in Anatolia , iconographic images of the goddess with three Erotes symbolized the three realms over which she had dominion: the Earth, sky, and water.

6. Io (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [13] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...

7. Selene - Wikipedia

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   The ancient Greek language had three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), so when a god or a goddess personified an object or a concept, they inherited the gender of the corresponding noun; selene, the Greek noun for 'Moon', is a feminine one (whereas men is a masculine one), so the deity embodying it is also by necessity ...

8. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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   The middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull, and dolphin. Demeter: Ceres: Goddess of the harvest, fertility, agriculture, nature and the seasons.

9. Artemis - Wikipedia

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   The two had fallen in love not on their own but only after Eros had struck them with his love arrows, commanded by his mother Aphrodite, who had taken offence in that Rhodopis and Euthynicus rejected love and marriage in favour of a chaste life. [256] [257]