Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis ' lover and his surrogate mother.

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 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.

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.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

There were exceptions: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was more frequently portrayed fully nude, though in postures that were intended to portray shyness or modesty, a portrayal that has been compared to modern pin ups by historian Marilyn Yalom.

The rockface at the west end of the building was cut away, although it is unclear how much remained in Constantine's time, as archaeological investigation has revealed that the temple of Aphrodite reached far into the current rotunda area, and the temple enclosure would therefore have reached even further to the west.

Aphrodite gives Paris a vision of Helen riding a horse, while Helen has a vision of Paris.

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 ".

Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple ; but while he casts the money, he must say, “ I invite you in the name of Mylitta ” ( that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite ).

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.

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

The agora, the theatre, an odeum, a temple of Dionysus, a temple of the Muses, a temple of Aphrodite and a great number of minor buildings have been identified, and the general plan of the city has been very clearly made out.

Throughout the 1990s he tried his hand at just about every variation on the high speed breakbeat musical idiom and has collaborated with many influential jungle and drum and bass artists including Aphrodite ( Artist ), DJ Dara, Danny Breaks, Dieselboy, and MC Navigator, as well as with hip hop artists such as A Tribe Called Quest.

Myrrha has been interpreted as developing from a girl into a woman in the course of the story: in the beginning she is a virgin refusing her suitors, in that way denying the part of herself that is normally dedicated to Aphrodite.

Since he has to carry out Athena's order, he orders Sthenelus to steal the horses while he faces Aphrodite ’ s son.

" Hermaphroditus, as he has been called, who was born of Hermes and Aphrodite and received a name which is a combination of those of both his parents.

In reading the account, the primitive aspect of the cult at Amathus would appear to be much older than the Athenian-sanctioned shrine of Aphrodite, who has assumed Ariadne ( hagne, " sacred ") as an epithet at Amathus.

Chaereas and Callirhoe return in triumph to Syracuse, where Callirhoe offers prayers to Aphrodite, who has guided the events of the narrative.

She has been a vocal performer on episodes of animated television series, including as Aphrodite on Hercules: The Animated Series, and as Springfield Elementary School student Alexandra Whitney on The Simpsons.

It has been argued that the legends of Saint Margaret are derived from a transformation of the pagan divinity Aphrodite into a Christian saint.

Gregorio Luke, former director of Museum of Latin American Art who conducted lectures about belly buttons told, " The belly button has been a sign of beauty in goddesses as different as Astarte, Venus or Aphrodite.

Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, begins by taking Phaedrus up on his chosen examples ( 180c ), asserting that the love that deserves attention is not the kind associated with Aphrodite Pandemos ( Aphrodite common to the whole city ) whose object may equally be a woman or a boy, but that of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ), which " springs entirely from the male " and is " free from wantonness "; the object of this kind of love is not a child, but one who has begun to display intelligence and is close to growing a beard ( 181e ).