Female centaurs flanking Venus ( mythology ) | Venus ( Mosaic from Roman Tunisia, 2nd century AD )

Elizabeth I and the three Goddesses Juno ( mythology ) | Juno, Athena & Venus ( mythology ) | Venus.

The first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced ( white phosphorus, in 1669 ) emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen – hence its name given from Greek mythology, meaning " light-bearer " ( Latin Lucifer ), referring to the " Morning Star ", the planet Venus.

In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality.

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The portrait of Elizabeth as Venus ( mythology ) | Venus, painted in the 1710s for the Grand Peterhof Palace.

Venus ( mythology ) | Venus supported by Iris ( mythology ) | Iris, complaining to Mars ( mythology ) | Mars by George Hayter, exhibited in 1820 at the Royal Academy | RA " to acclaim " ( in the Ceiling of the Ante Library Chatsworth House ) – Winner of the Royal Academy Painting of the Year in 1823

He is a character of Roman mythology, and has a divine lineage, being the son of Aeneas, who is son of Venus and the hero Anchises, a relative of Priam ; thus Ascanius has divine ascendents by both parents, being descendant of Jupiter, Juno and Dardanus.

His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite ( and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus ).

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In Roman mythology, Appias was one of the Crinaeae, a naiad who lived in the Appian Well outside the temple to Venus Genitrix in the Roman Forum.

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Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

* Cleopatra ( crater ), an impact crater on Venus

*< cite id = refSitter1927 > W de Sitter ( 1927 ), " On the secular accelerations and the fluctuations of the longitudes of the moon, the sun, Mercury and Venus ", Bull.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

Archeological finds, particularly in Pompeii, show the Roman goddess Venus wearing a bikini.

File: Lely Venus BM 1963. jpg | The famous version of the ' Crouching Venus ', Roman, circa 1st century AD

In the early 2nd century, the site of the present Church had been a temple of Aphrodite ; several ancient writers alternatively describe it as a temple to Venus, the Roman equivalent to Aphrodite.

Venus, c. 125 ; Marble, Roman ; British Museum

Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.

Venus (, Classical Latin: ) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory.

Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was venerated in Roman religion under numerous cult titles.

Venus has been described as perhaps " the most original creation of the Roman pantheon ", and " an ill-defined and assimilative " native goddess, combined " with a strange and exotic Aphrodite ".

Roman theology presents Venus as the yielding, watery female principle, essential to the generation and balance of life.

Venus was offered official ( state-sponsored ) cult in certain festivals of the Roman calendar.

" Roman Venus: public worship and private rites.

* Wagenvoort, Hendrik, " The Origins of the goddess Venus " ( first published as " De deae Veneris origine ", Mnemnosyne, Series IV, 17, 1964, pp. 47 – 77 ) in Pietas: selected studies in Roman religion, Brill, 1980.

Probably due to assimilation with the goddesses Aphrodite ( Venus ), during the Roman period, the rose was used in her worship.

In 55 BCE, Pompey's " gift to the Roman People " of a gigantic, architecturally daring theatre was dedicated to Venus Victrix, and thereby connected the once equestrian vir triumphalis to Aeneas, son of Venus and ancestor of Rome itself.

Tyndaris was also one of seventeen cities which had been selected by the Roman senate, apparently as an honorary distinction, to contribute to certain offerings to the temple of Venus at Eryx.

The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the " day of Frigg ", a result of an old convention equivocating the Old English goddess Frige with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures.

* The Venus of Badalona is a small Roman sculpture in white marble that symbolized the wealth of the city in Roman times.