1. The Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Sexual Rapture
Aphrodite
The Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure,
and Sexual Rapture

2. Aphrodite Relationships: Symbols: Spheres of Influence: Love Beauty
Pleasure
Sexual Rapture
In Rome Cupid is her messenger
Relationships:
Wife of Hephaestus/ Vulcan
Involved with Ares/Mars
Born from Uranus (Father of the Gods)
Symbols:
Shells
Dove
Dolphin
Girdle
Mirror
Roman Name: Venus
Head of a larger-than-life statue, copying a statue by Praxiteles ( BC) Statue of 1st century AD by Praxiteles

3. Aphrodite (Venus), gazing at her lover Mars while he is sleeping Painting of 1483 by Sandro Botticelli ( )
Figurine of Aphrodite and Eros, found in the district of Corinthia Statue of 400 BC

4. Short Story
Aphrodite was the exception to the Greek God family tree. One story is that she was born of sea foam. Others, like the poet Homer, said she was a daughter of Zeus. No one knows quite where to place her on the Greek God family tree.
However she was born, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. She was an essential element of many Greek myths.
Legend says that Aphrodite could be kind or merciless, but she was not at all like Ares, the god of war. Ares loved to cause pain and havoc. Aphrodite was only merciless if you did something that truly angered her. Unfortunately, Aphrodite was easily angered, especially when it came to vanity.
For example, if you believe the old myth, it was not a quarrel over land or goods, but was instead Aphrodite's vanity that caused the Trojan War.

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The goddess emerging from the sea as a fully grown woman Painting of 1482 by Sandro Botticelli ( ) Uffizi Gallery of Florence in Italy
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