"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...
: "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)."...
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, ...
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....
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...
Although Psyche’s father had concerns, he was obliged to carry out the plan of the Oracle. The next day, Psyche, her father and mother, and her two sisters hiked up to the mountain top. They cried as they said goodbye, but left a scared and lonely Psyche at this spot all by hersel...
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 ...
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...
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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...