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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.
The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", [a] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original.
Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Statue of the so-called 'Aphrodite on a tortoise', 430–420 BCE, Athens [a]Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her ...
The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite.It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Knidos, [1] which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the ...
Venus Anadyomene [1] (Greek: Ἀναδυόμενη, "Venus, Rising from the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus , made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny's Natural History, [2] with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great ...
English: Astronomical and astrological symbol of the planet Venus, alchemical symbol of copper, gender symbol for female, and symbol of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Roman goddess Venus. Also found at Unicode U+2640 (♀).
Venus seems to have had no origin myth until her association with Greek Aphrodite. Venus-Aphrodite emerged, already in adult form, from the sea foam (Greek αφρός, aphros) produced by the severed genitals of Caelus-Uranus. [10] Roman theology presents Venus as the yielding, watery female principle, essential to the generation and balance of ...
An example of Venus Genetrix (Capitoline Museums)The Venus Genetrix (also spelled genitrix) [1] is a sculptural type which shows the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect of Genetrix ("foundress of the family"), as she was honoured by the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome, which claimed her as their ancestor.