Venus (Aphrodite) is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet is aptly named since it makes a beautiful sight in the sky, with only the Sun and the Moon being brighter. Earth (Gaia) is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name deri...
Greek Name Αφροδιτη Transliteration Aphroditê Latin Spelling Aphrodite Translation Venus Aphrodite riding goose, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., British Museum APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman ...
The first has the name of revolving Selene (the Moon); the second is called of Hermes [i.e. the planet Mercury], a shining tabled of gold, upon which are wrought all the secrets of law; the third has your name [i.e. Aphrodite the planet Venus], a rosy tablet, for it has the...
Aeneas, in Greek myth, is the name of the legendary son of Venus, hero of Troy and Rome, and broke the heart of Queen Dido of Carthage. Aeschylus Aeschylus means “shame” and pronounced as EHS-KahL-ahS. Aeschylus was the name of a 5th-century BC Athenian historian. Aesop There is ...
Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty. In Greek her name was Aphrodite. Venus and the Earth are almost the same size and you would weigh almost the same on both planets. If you were 70 pounds on Earth you would be 63 pounds on Venus. Venus is an "unfriendly" planet. ...
This was the name of Ariel’s father, the undersea king in Disney’sThe Little Mermaid. It’s also the name given to the largest of the planet Neptune’s moons. 47. Troy The Trojan War in Troy is one of the most famed events in Greek mythology. Troy was a city located in a regio...
Prosymna was one of the names for the New Moon. She was also a nurse of Hera with her sisters: Acraea and Euboea. Rumor See Ossa, above. She was a swift-footed and feathered demon goddess who delivered messages - not always truthfully.n Semnai Semnai is another name for the Erinyes...
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Even our Earth was named after a Greek myth: Another name for our planet is "Gaia," the name of the Greek earth mother. Signs of Greek Mythology in Modern Societies The names of Greek mythology surround us today, sometimes in unusual places. WouldAjax, one of the great Greek heroes of...
But if a single person gave planet Earth its English name, his or her identity has been lost to the sands of time.Still, it's clear that while Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all started out as the proper names of ancient gods, “Earth" did not. That's ...