Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means ‘foam,’ and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uran
"[From a description of an ancient Greek play portraying the Judgement of Paris:] After them a third girl entered, her beauty visibly unsurpassed. Her charming, ambrosia-like complexion intimated that she represented the earlier Venus [Aphrodite] when that goddess was still a maiden. She vaunted...
Aphrodite is a major female deity in the Greek Pantheon, she is the goddess and personification of beauty, love, sex, pleasure, passion and procreation and a member of The Twelve Olympians in Greek Mythology. Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love, Beauty and
Two, three or an entire flock of winged Erotes (Loves) were depicted accompanying the goddess of love in ancient art. The Romans called them Amores or Cupides.Pindar, Eulogies Fragment 122 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) : "Aphrodite the heavenly mother of Erotes (Loves)."...
"Aphrodite de Milo has a glow. It is time that this radiance, which was on loan to various museums abroad, returned home," Kostetsos told Xinhua, shortly before models dressed in colorful, airy, feminine creations and costumes reminiscent of ancient Greek art walked the runway in the garden...
Aphrodite (Venus in Rome) is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She was a major goddess in ancient Greek mythology and Vergil's Aeneid.
A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think.
Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, desire, sexual pleasure, fertility, beauty, and grace. She also helped to cause the Trojan war.Who is Aphrodite? Aphrodite was a busy goddess. While best known as Aphrodite, goddess of love, she was the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty...
Aphrodite- goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus Cytherea Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. Translations Spanish / Español ...
The story of the Marriage of Hephaistos and Aphrodite can be reconstructed from text fragments and ancient Greek vase paintings, such as the Francois Vase: Hephaistos had been cast from heaven by his mother Hera at birth, for she was ashamed at bearing a crippled son. He was rescued by Thet...