After the worship of Zeus had displaced the oak-grove oracle at Dodona, some poets made Zeus the father of Aphrodite.

Aphrodite had no childhood: in every image and each reference she is born as an adult, nubile, and infinitely desirable.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

In later myths, Adonis had been related as a favorite of Aphrodite, and Aphrodite was responsible for the death of Hippolytus, who had been a favorite of Artemis.

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.

The site of the Church had been a temple of Aphrodite prior to Constantine's aedifice being built.

It was believed that she had a fair face like Aphrodite with a tall body, slim, small hips, and a high forehead.

The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

This rosy-fingered, saffron-robed and golden-throned goddess, who goes up to Olympus to announce the light to the immortals, fell in love several times, and some say it was Aphrodite who cursed her to be perpetually in love, because once had Eos lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, god of war.

The women had neglected their worship of Aphrodite, and as a punishment the goddess made the women so foul in stench that their husbands could not bear to be near them.

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

When Medea confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the help she had given him, he retorted that it was not she that he should thank, but Aphrodite who made Medea fall in love with him.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

In the above excerpt, the actress playing Aphrodite enters the stage, naked except for a thin silken robe that she had taken off her shoulders and only holds over her genitals for modesty.

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 ).

According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment.

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.

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 ).

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

Aphrodite, in many of the late anecdotal myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

: 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.

Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.

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.

Accounts vary significantly as to his genealogy and provide a variety of stories concerning him ; in many sources, however, he is associated with the cult of Aphrodite on Cyprus, and Adonis, a consort of Aphrodite, is mentioned as his son.

By this time it referred especially to the style recorded by artists such as DJ Zinc, Aphrodite and Dillinja ( amongst many others ), and this could include amens but more often had a step-break ( see below ) or only used an amen or other breakbeat as an additional dancefloor incentive later in the track.

However old he is, Roarke has come to know many seemingly-immortal beings over his time on Earth, including ghosts (" The Ghost's Story "), a genie (" A Genie Named Joe "), the mermaid Nyah (" The Mermaid ", " The Mermaid Returns ", " The Mermaid and the Matchmaker "), the goddess Aphrodite (" Aphrodite "), and even Uriel, the Angel of Death (" The Angel's Triangle ").

The comparison essentially rests on the Apollino, whose head has proportions similar to those of the Aphrodite of Cnidus and whose pronounced sfumato confirms the long-held idea that it is Praxitelean in style, in spite of the many differences amomng the extant examples.

The Bridges and surrounding stores in the town centre include Boots, Burton, HMV, Debenhams, H & M, Starbucks, Next, TK Maxx, Waterstones, New Look, Tesco, Topshop, River Island, Aphrodite, Monsoon, USC, Ernest Jones and many more.

Additionally, many scenes of a " suggestive " nature were deleted ; this included nearly all occurrences of Aphrodite A actually launching its " oppai " ( breast ) missiles, usually replaced by a freeze-frame of Sayaka / Jessica's thumb on the firing switch cutting to the missile ( s ) already in flight.

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.

He wrote elegies, Aphrodite, the funeral elegy for his wife Arete, an Encomium of Arete in three books, and many other works.

He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine Pablo César ( Aphrodite, 1998 ).

It also hosts many non-sporting events, such as concerts, shows, graduations, seminars, Disney on Ice, the circus, and beauty pageants. Some notable international performers include country singers Taylor Swift as part of her Speak Now Tour, Kylie Minogue as part of her Aphrodite World Tour on July 5, 2011, Kelly Clarkson as part of her All I Ever Wanted World Tour on May 1, 2010, Avril Lavigne as part of her The Best Damn Tour on September 3, 2008 and The Black Star Tour on February 16, 2012, Akon, Michael Bublé, and the American Idols LIVE!

The reunited lovers, as they had promised before, dedicated two temples to Aphrodite, surnamed Epidaetia " The One That Brings To The Banquet " and Automate " The Spontaneous ".

In 1931, Caresse also published Torchbearer, a collection of his poetry with an afterward by Ezra Pound, and Aphrodite in Flight, a seventy-five paragraph-long prose-poem and how-to manual for lovers that compared making love to a woman to flying planes.

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

As " first to be devoured ... and the last to be yielded up again ", Hestia was thus both the eldest and youngest daughter ; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite ( 700 BC ).

The name comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexuality and love ; the subset of aphrodisiacs effective on both men and women are known as hermaphrodisiacs.

Although he can face both of these warriors together, he knows that Aphrodite may try to save her 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.

Recent evidence of fragments of the text on papyri suggests that the novel may have been written in the mid 1st century AD, making it the oldest surviving complete ancient prose romance and the only one to make use of apparent historiographical features for background verisimilitude and structure, in conjunction with elements of Greek mythology, as Callirhoë is frequently compared to Aphrodite and Ariadne and Chaereas to numerous heroes, both implicitly and explicitly.

Dolphins were sacred to both Aphrodite and Apollo.

His two representative works are the tone poems Aphrodite and Tam O ’ Shanter, both for large orchestra.

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