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A Roman copy of a statue of Aphrodite Areia found in Epidaurus, with the original created by the Polykleitos school.. Aphrodite Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike" was a cult epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, in which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares. [1]
Aphrodite Areia [ edit ] In ancient Greek cult and religion, the usually love-associated Aphrodite was sometimes worshipped as a war goddess under the epithet Areia ( Ancient Greek : Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία ) or "Aphrodite the Warlike", under which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares , her lover.
Aphrodite was also honored in Athens as part of the Arrhephoria festival. [76] The fourth day of every month was sacred to Aphrodite. [77] Pausanias records that, in Sparta, Aphrodite was worshipped as Aphrodite Areia, which means "warlike". [40] [41] This epithet stresses Aphrodite's connections to Ares, with whom she had extramarital relations.
The Temple to Arsinoe Aphrodite at Cape Zephyrion was a sanctuary commissioned around 279 BCE by Kallikrates, the commander of the Ptolemaic Naval Fleet. A Graeco-Macedonian Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt, Arsinoe II was directly involved in public affairs, war planning, and public and private ritual rites.
The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia was a sanctuary in ancient Paphos on Cyprus dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. Located where the legendary birth of Aphrodite took place, it has been referred to as the main sanctuary of Aphrodite, and was a place of pilgrimages in the ancient world for centuries.
Ilaba, warlike tutelary god of the kings of the Akkadian Empire; Inanna, Sumerian goddess of love, sex and war; Ishtar, Akkadian (later Assyrian and Babylonian) counterpart of Inanna; Nergal, god of war, the underworld, and pestilence; Ninazu, a god of the underworld who could also be portrayed as a war deity
Anaxarete sees the dead Iphis, 1602–7 engraving. In Greek mythology, Arsinoë (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη, romanized: Arsinóē, lit. 'elevated-minded' pronounced [arsinóɛː]) is a Cypriot princess who was punished by being turned into stone at the hand of the goddess of love Aphrodite for turning down a potential suitor named Arceophon. [1]
Aphrodite was worshipped in most towns of Cyprus, as well as in Cythera, Sparta, Thebes, Delos, and Elis, and her most ancient temple was at Paphos. Textual sources explicitly mention Aphrodisia festivals in Corinth and in Athens , where the many prostitutes that resided in the city celebrated the festival as a means of worshipping their patron ...