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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 goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses
Some versions of the myth state that Zeus did not return the dowry, and in fact Aphrodite "simply charmed her way back again into her husband’s good graces." [32] In the Iliad, Hephaestus is described as married to the Grace Charis during the events depicted in the Trojan War, [33] while in the Theogony, he is married to the Grace Aglaea. [34]
Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and sexual pleasure. Wife of Hephaestus, and lover of Ares. Apollo, god of the sun, light, knowledge, healing, plague and darkness, the arts, music, poetry, prophecy, archery. Son of Zeus and Leto, twin of Artemis. Ares, god of war. Lover of Aphrodite. Driven from the field of battle by Diomedes (aided by ...
Three guests, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, after some disputation, agreed to have Paris of Troy choose the fairest one. Paris chose Aphrodite, she having bribed him with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus. Whereupon Paris carried Helen off to Troy, and the Greeks invaded Troy for Helen's return.
Once Aphrodite and her son Eros held a flower-gathering competition. Eros was in the lead until a nymph named Peristera arrived and helped Aphrodite gather more flowers than he had, therefore giving Aphrodite the victory. In anger, Eros transformed Peristera into the homonymous bird, a symbol of Aphrodite. Phene ("vulture") Lammergeier: Zeus
This time he sang of the love between Ares and Aphrodite. Hephaestus was Aphrodite's husband and found out about the affair because Helios told him that he had seen Ares and Aphrodite lying together. Hephaestus sets up an inescapable trap over his bed. When Ares and Aphrodite go to bed, they are snared in the trap and caught by Hephaestus.
The myth goes that Adonis was gored by a wild boar during a hunting trip and died in Aphrodite's arms as she wept. His blood mingled with her tears and became the anemone flower. Aphrodite declared the Adonia festival to commemorate his tragic death, celebrated by women every year in midsummer. During this festival, Greek women would plant ...
Two roosters on an ancient Greek black-figure vase from Villa Giulia.. Alectryon (from Ancient Greek: ἀλεκτρυών, Alektruṓn pronounced [alektryɔ̌ːn], literally meaning "rooster") in Greek mythology, was a young soldier who was assigned by Ares, the god of war, to guard the outside of his bedroom door while the god took part in a love affair with the love goddess Aphrodite.