Aphrodite

All About Aphrodite!

• Aphrodite was the great olympian goddess.
• Beauty & Love and Pleasure and procreation
• She was depicted as a beautiful woman usually
• accompanied by winged godling Eros , (Love)
• Her attributes included a dove & apple & scallop shell mirror

Aphrodite

• Because of her beauty other gods feared rivarily over her
• Would Intterupt peace among them & eventually lead to war
• Aphrodite had many lovers , both gods such as  Ares  and men
• Such  as Anchises & Played a role in Eros & Psyche legend
• Later was both Adonsi's  lover, his surrogate Mother.

Aphrodite!

• Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea
• She is sometimes known as the Cyprian because there was a cult center
• She is the wife of the ugliest of the gods
• She has love affairs with gods and mortals.
• Her Birthplace was Rising from the foam off of the islands 

Aphrodite!

• Two accounts of her birth
• She is the daughter of Zeus and Dione
• She is wife of Hephaestus
• The myrtle is her tree
• Aphrodite is the mother of the god of love

APHRODITE!

• Aphrodite was called Venus by the Romans
• Aphrodite is associated with a magic girdle (belt)
• Aphrodite bore children to the messegener
• She played an active role in man life.
• Her favorite lover is God 

APHRODItE !

• Athena and Artemis, or the faithful goddess of marriage
• The Greek goddess Aphrodite rises from the foam of the waves of the sea
• She is a contender in the story of the Golden Apples
• Her Girdle, a decorated belt, which has magical powers to compel love
• Her weakness is she's a bit stuck on herself with that body and face

Aphrodite parents!

• One genealogy gives her parents as Zeus, King of the Gods
• Dione an early earth/mother goddess
• She was believed to be born of the foam in the sea
• Which bubbled around severed member of Quranos
• When Kronos slew him

*The myrtle, a type of tree with fragrant, spicysmelling leaves witch is the
*Wild Rose
*The island of Cyprus has many places believed to have been enjoyed by Aphrodite when she was on
*Earth & Her name is spelled Afrodite or Afroditi. In Roman mythology, she is known as Venus.
In 2010, the still-potent image of Aphrodite hit the news, as the island nation of Cyprus

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