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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. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves
In Hesiod's Theogony, Eros and Himeros were present at Aphrodite's birth and escorted the goddess as she emerged out of the sea foam and joined the assembly of the gods. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Earlier in Theogony, Himeros is mentioned as a resident of Mount Olympus , being a neighbor of the Muses and the Charites . [ 3 ]
Hedylogos and Pothos are yoked to a chariot, behind which stands Aphrodite. Attic red figure cylindrical pyxis, c. 420–400 BC, attributed to the Meidias Painter. [1] In Greek mythology, Hedylogos (Ancient Greek: Ἡδυλόγος, romanized: Hēdylógos, lit. 'sweet-voiced, flattering') is the god and personification of sweet-talk and flattery.
Venus Tauride. The Venus Tauride or Venus of Tauris is a 1.67 m high sculpture of Aphrodite.It is named after the Tauride (Tavrichesky) Palace in St Petersburg, where it was kept from the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth.
He was part of Aphrodite's retinue, and carried a vine, indicating a connection to wine or the god Dionysus. Pothos represents longing or yearning. Pothos represents longing or yearning. [ 7 ] : 40 In the temple of Aphrodite at Megara , there was a sculpture that represented Pothos together with Eros and Himeros which has been credited to Scopas .
Pisidice took a glimpse of him from the walls, and Aphrodite made her immediately fall in love with Achilles. The more she watched him fight gallantly, the deeper her love grew. Eventually she sent out her slave nurse to meet him and relay her terms to him, promising to Achilles to deliver the city to him on the condition he would make her his ...
Copy of a Hellenistic Aphrodite Kallipygos at The Hermitage in St. Petersburg.. Anasyrma (Ancient Greek: ἀνάσυρμα) composed of ἀνά ana "up, against, back", and σύρμα syrma "a dragging motion"; plural: anasyrmata (ἀνασύρματα), also called anasyrmos (ἀνασυρμός), [1] is the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt.
Aphrodite of Rhodes was an accidental find, unearthed in 1923 in the garden of the Governor's villa in Rhodes, when the island was still under Italian control following Italy's annexation of the Dodecanese islands from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.