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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 maid Comaetho ruled over the Cilicians. As she approached marriage age, the girl fell in love with the river-god Cydnus and pined for him until the goddess Aphrodite turned her into a spring, presumably in order to unite the two. [3] [4] Thereafter Comaetho was glad to join him in wedlock and mingle her newly-formed waters with those of Cydnus.
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
The adjectival epithet, Areios ("warlike") was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they took on a warrior aspect or became involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia ("Aphrodite within Ares" or "feminine Ares"), who was warlike, fully armoured and armed, partnered with Athena in Sparta, and represented ...
As the patron goddess of Rome and the Roman Empire, Juno was called Regina ("Queen") and was a member of the Capitoline Triad (Juno Capitolina), centered on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, and also including Jupiter, and Minerva, goddess of wisdom. Juno-Hera, antique fresco from Pompeii. Juno's own warlike aspect among the Romans is apparent in ...
The epithet "the Warlike" may refer to: Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522–1557) Crimthann the Warlike, 8th century Irish individual whose identity is uncertain - see Aedh Ailghin; Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370–1428), also Margrave of Meissen; Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1211–1246), Duke of Austria and of ...