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Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. She was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and occasionally presided over marriage.
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [3] 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 was the goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but she did not enter into this union of her own volition. She and Ares conceived Harmonia, who eventually married Herodotus. She was the mother of Hermaphroditus by Hermes.
Aphrodite, known as Venus to the Romans, was a favorite goddess of the ancient Greeks. Worshipped for her ideal beauty, Aphrodite held sway over matters of love, desire, and sexual pleasures. But the stories of Aphrodite aren’t all great romances.
APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman often accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was usually depicted nude.
Aphrodite (Greek: Αφροδίτη, transl.: Aphrodítē) is the goddess of love, beauty and sexuality in ancient Greek religion. Responsible for the perpetuation of life, pleasure and joy.
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is one of the 12 Olympians and was born from the sea foam created when the Titan Cronus severed Uranus’ genitals and threw them into the sea.
Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. This page describes the goddess' divine roles and privileges including love, sexual desire, procreation, beauty, grace, pleasure, erotic poetry, and the star Venus, as well as her identification with foreign goddesses.
Aphrodite is the mother of the god of love, Eros (more familiar as Cupid). She is the wife of the ugliest of the gods, Hephaestus. Unlike the powerful virginal goddesses, Athena and Artemis, or the faithful goddess of marriage, Hera, she has love affairs with gods and mortals.
Aphrodite: The Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. April 29, 2023 by Cassia Tsipras. Introduction. Aphrodite remains one of the most revered goddesses in Greek mythology, yet she remains shrouded in mystery to many people. Who was she, and why were ancient Greeks so drawn to her?