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...
: "And in the train of their mother [Aphrodite] are Pothos (Desire) and she to whom nothing is denied, winning Peitho (Persuasion); and to Harmonia (Harmony) has been given a share of Aphrodite, and to the whispering touches of the Erotes (Loves)."...
Aphrodite and HippolytusFew dared to resist the power of Aphrodite, and she had mercy for none of them. Hippolytus preferred Artemis to her and vowed to eternal innocence. Aphrodite made his stepmother Phaedra fall in love with him, which resulted in the death of both her and Hippolytus....
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...
There she goes crying to her mother Dione, who soothes her and cures her wound. Her father Zeus tells her to leave war to the likes of Ares and Athena, while devoting herself to the business of marriage. Elsewhere in Homer's Iliad , Aphrodite saves Paris when he is about to be ...
“Mother, I don’t want to get married. I want to stay with father.” Hera’ s face is no more softly, “ You don’ t want to get married, you can not choose it, your father can’t earn money, me and Pandora need money, there is a rich man in the town who named Hephaestus...
Zeus (father), Dione (mother), Hera, Demeter (aunts), Poseidon, Hades (uncles), Hephaestus (ex-husband/half-brother), Cupid (son), Harmonia (daughter), Ares, Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus (half-brothers), Athena, Artemis, Discord, Eilethyia (half-sisters), Aeneas (son, deceased), Julius ...
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...
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