Homer, in the Iliad, mentions a daughter named Hippodamia, their eldest ("the darling of her father and mother"), who married her cousin Alcathous. Aphrodite with Rhea, rescued Creusa, the wife of Aphrodite's son Aeneas, from the slavery the Greeks would have subjected her to after the...
At a wedding attended by all the Gods, a golden apple appeared, inscribed with the words "to the fairest." Immediately Aphrodite, her mother Hera, and sister Athena quarreled over it. Zeus elected Paris, Prince of Troy, to choose a victor. In exchange for being named the fairest, Aphrodit...
Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, love, and sexuality. She is sometimes known as the Cyprian because there was a cult center of Aphrodite on Cyprus [SeeMap Jc-d]. Aphrodite is the mother of the god of love, Eros (more familiar as Cupid). She is the wife of the ugliest of the go...
and thisfacilitatedtheir equation, as father and daughter, with the Greek deities Zeus and Aphrodite. She was, therefore, also a daughter of Dione, was the wife ofVulcan, and was the mother ofCupid. Inmythandlegendshe was famous for herromanticintrigues and affairs with both gods and mortals...
x. 300, &c.) adds the following features: Myrrha's love of her father was excited by the furies; Lucina assisted her when she gave birth to Adonis, and the Naiads anointed him with the tears of his mother, i. e. with the fluid which trickled from the tree. Adonis grew up a most...
Uranus was a primordial deity and the ruler of the universe whose union withGaia, the earth, started all things. According to Hesiod, when Cronus overthrew his father, he cut off Uranus’ genitals and cast them in the sea near the island of Cythera. From Uranus’ blood arose theErinyes,Gi...
"To Mercurius [Hermes], runs the tale, and Cythereia [Aphrodite] a boy was born whom in Mount Ida's caves the Naides nurtured; in his face he showed father and mother and took his name from both. When thrice five years had passed, the youth forsook Ida, his fostering home, his mo...
comforted. "Dione" seems to be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whom Homer has relocated to Olympus. After this story, Aphrodite herself was sometimes referred to as "Dione". Once Zeus had usurped the oak-grove oracle at Dodona, some poets made him out to be the father of ...
Hephaestus had many relatives and a big family. Zeus was his was his father and Hera was his mother. However, the god of fire was raised by Thetis and Eurynome when he fell in the ocean from been thrown off Mt. Olympus. Hephaestus had many siblings who were Ares, Eileithyia, Enyo, ...
Known Relatives: Zeus (father), Dione (mother),Hephaestus(estranged husband); Cupid,Aeneas(deceased), Hermaphroditus,Priapus(sons); Harmonia (daughter),Psyche(daughter-in-law); Gaea(great-grandmother), Ouranos/Uranus (great-grandfather, deceased); ...