Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea ( Lady of Cythera ) and Cypris ( Lady of Cyprus ) after the two cult-sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed her birth.

Aphrodite also has many other local names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, used in specific areas of Greece.

Aphrodite herself was sometimes also referred to as " Dione.

Her unhappiness with her marriage caused Aphrodite to seek out companionship from others, most frequently Ares, but also Adonis.

The excavators discovered the final stage of the Temple of Aphrodite, also known as Aphrodisias, which dates approximately to the first century BC.

Deimos, " Terror " or " Dread ", and Phobos, " Fear ", are his companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to Hesiod.

: Listen to the words of the Great Mother ; she who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana, Arianrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other names.

Athena ( first from the right ) is also naked, but she, unlike Aphrodite, displays some modesty by covering her genitals.

In Aelian's natural history, written in the early third century CE, Nereus was also the father of a watery consort of Aphrodite named Nerites who was transformed into " a shellfish with a spiral shell, small in size but of surpassing beauty.

Poppies also frequently adorned statues of Apollo, Asklepios, Pluto, Demeter, Aphrodite, Kybele and Isis, symbolizing nocturnal oblivion.

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

The Aphrodite of Milos was discovered on 8 April 1820 by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas, inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos, the current village of Tripiti, on the island of Milos ( also Melos, or Milo ) in the Aegean.

The great fame of the Aphrodite of Milos during the nineteenth century was not simply the result of its admitted beauty, but also owed much to a major propaganda effort by the French authorities.

* The making of the statue Aphrodite of Melos ( also called Venus de Milo ) begins and is finished 25 years later.

Persephone was also taken by Adonis ' beauty and refused to give him back to Aphrodite.

She was an attendant to Persephone, Aphrodite and Hera, and was also associated with Dionysus, Apollo and Pan.

# It was also said that Myrrha fled from her father and Aphrodite turned her into a tree.

In Greek mythology, Rhodos or Rhodus () also known as Rhode was the goddess of the island of Rhodes and wife of Helios, she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon.

Because of her beauty she was also associated with Aphrodite.

" " All three names — Halia, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, and furthermore also Kapheira — must have been applied to one and the same great goddess ", Karl Kerenyi observes.

He was the father of Eryx by Aphrodite, and also of Polycaon.

The Greeks, who became rulers of Egypt for three hundred years before the Roman domination in 31 BC, also loved Hathor and equated her with their own goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite.

During his tenure at TRUK, he was often accompanied by the show's Canadian Producer Colin Lloyd, assistants Dixie, Jane and Aphrodite, and the man on the phones, also called Tony ( although renamed by Caesar as Bogey – " Because he always gets up my nose " being the explanation.

During 1960, Herman also met playwright Tad Mosel and the two men collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite.

" This girl became Aphrodite.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

Halia became Poseidon's wife and bore him Rhodos / Rhode and six sons ; the sons were maddened by Aphrodite in retaliation for an impious affront, assaulted their sister and were confined beneath the Earth by Poseidon.

Aglaea was married to Hephaestus after his divorce from Aphrodite, and by him became mother of Eucleia (“ Good Repute ”), Eupheme (“ Acclaim ”), Euthenia (“ Prosperity ”), and Philophrosyne (“ Welcome ”).

But Aphrodite saved Butes by transferring him to Lilybaeum in Sicily, where he became her lover.

By 1907, it became an intimate relationship and as Beatrice Hastings herself would later confess, "... Aphrodite amused herself at our expense.

His first ( of 31 ) plays to be produced was Aphrodite against Artemis ( 1906 ), staged by the Literary Theatre Club of which he became a member in 1908.

Two women, Hirsig and Shumway ( her magical name was Sister Cypris after Aphrodite ), both became pregnant by Crowley at the Abbey.

Later during Hellenization, the Lady became replaced with the goddess Aphrodite.

The myth indicates that a cult image of Aphrodite was instrumental in some way in the founding myth of Paphos.

Among the specialty shows at WRAS are: Nippon Music Champ ( one of the few Japanese music shows in the southeast ), The Georgia Music Show ( dedicated exclusively to artists from Georgia ), I Don't Care ( punk ), Soul Kitchen ( funk, soul, disco and related ), Crossroads ( blues ), Psychobilly Freakout ( rockabilly and psychobilly ), Beatscape Lounge ( ambient, electronica and nu jazz ), Subterranean ( drum and bass ), Cowtipper's Delight ( classic country and alternative country ), Dot Dash ( post-punk ), Hotel Parallel ( drone music and space rock ), Mighty Aphrodite ( female vocalists ), We're Not Gonna Take It ( heavy-metal music ), Tower of Song ( psyche, prog, freakbeat ), a large variety of hip hop including the long-running shows Tha Bomb, Rhythm and Vibes ( Atlanta's longest-running hip hop show ) and Hush Hush ( instrumental hip hop ), Martinis Con Queso ( lounge ) and many more.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

* In the myth of Psyche and Eros, Psyche is given ambrosia by Hermes upon her completion of the quests set by Aphrodite and her acceptance on Olympus.

The union of Ares and Aphrodite created the gods Eros, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, and Adrestia.

However, Hera had persuaded Aphrodite to convince her son Eros to make Aeetes's daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason.

However, the role of a child in Greek art might imply a further meaning for baby satyrs: Eros, the son of Aphrodite, is consistently represented as a child or baby, and Bacchus, the divine sponsor of satyrs, is seen in numerous works as a baby, often in the company of the satyrs.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

Apollonius says that Medea only helped Jason in the first place because Hera had convinced Aphrodite or Eros to cause Medea to fall in love with him.

A flying Eros and Aphrodite ( on the left ) watch the scene.

Asopus cannot discover what has become of them until the seer Acraephen ( otherwise unknown ) tells him that Eros and Aphrodite persuaded the four gods to come secretly to his house and steal his nine daughters.

Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite ( Argonautica 3. 25 – 6 ) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which Sappho made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of ...?

The section is lost, but it has been suggested that he made Eros the son of Aphrodite and Hephaestus

The ball, which Aphrodite promises to Eros, is described as if it were the Cosmos: " its zones are golden, and two circular joinscurve around each of them ; the seams are concealed, as a twisting dark blue pattern plays over them.

Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate, the rationale being that love must be answered if it is to prosper.

Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called Erotes, the ever-youthful winged gods of love, usually depicted as winged boys in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses.

The phallic god Priapus was the son of Hermes in some accounts, and the youthful god of desire Eros of Hermes and Aphrodite.

Eros is often depicted alongside the other twelve, especially his mother Aphrodite, but not usually counted in their number.

Envious and jealous of the beauty of a mortal girl named Psyche, Venus asks her son Cupid ( known to the Greeks as Eros ) to use his golden arrows while Psyche sleeps, so that when she awakens, Venus ( Aphrodite in the Greek tradition ) would place a vile creature for her to fall in love with.

Then the people who admired her eventually started saying that she was more beautiful than Aphrodite ( Venus ) herself, and Aphrodite sent Eros to transfix her with an arrow of desire, to make her fall in love with the nearest person or thing available.

McDaniel ( 1989: p. 7 ) in her work on the bhakti saints of Bengal holds that Plato defined four types of divine madness: the mantic divination of Apollo ; the telestic possession-trance of Dionysus which reaches its apogee in the maenads ; the poetic from the Muses ; and the erotic frenzied love of Eros and Aphrodite:

" He notes four sorts of divine madness sent by the gods: the mantic, from Apollo, which brings divination ; the telestic, from Dionysus, which brings possession trance ( as a result of ritual ); the poetic, from the Muses, which brings enthusiasm and poetic furor ; and the erotic, from Eros and Aphrodite, which brings frenzied love.