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Aphrodite/Venus – The goddess of love and beauty, who first appears briefly in The Titan's Curse. Her appearance shifts constantly, always becoming more beautiful. [12] Cabin 10 at Camp Half-Blood is the home of her demigod children. In The Lightning Thief, Aphrodite is portrayed by Serinda Swan.
Aphrodite IX is a superheroine created in 2000 by writer David Wohl and artist David Finch, published by the American comics studio Top Cow, an imprint of Image Comics. Aphrodite IX is a self-aware female android designed as a spy and assassin who retains no memory of her missions.
The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of X-Files fan fiction on the Internet. [1] In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the "big three" single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest single fandom fan fiction archive [2] until the emergence of various Harry Potter archives in ...
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
In Cyprus and Athens, an aspect of Aphrodite with male genitals and in some cases a beard, called Aphroditos, was worshipped. Macrobius (c. 400s AD) wrote in his Saturnalia, at 3.8.2: There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and ...
Ares and Aphrodite, unaware of the trap, lay down, and the Sun alerted Hephaestus, who then summoned the other gods to witness the embarrassing scene. Apollo wonders why Hephaestus isn't ashamed to expose his failed marriage in this way, but Hermes remarks that he would willingly be in the same predicament with Aphrodite himself and invites ...
This provoked the ire of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and procreation, who viewed Polyphonte's decision as a personal affront. To punish Polyphonte for failing to honor her womanly duty, Aphrodite drove her mad and caused her to lust after a bear. Artemis was disgusted with Polyphonte and so turned the wild animals against her.
Ganymede also appears in the opening of Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage, where his and Zeus's affectionate banter is interrupted by an angry Aphrodite (Venus). [48] In the later Jacobean tragedy Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton , Ganymede, Hebe , and Hymen briefly appear to serve as cup bearers to the court, one of ...