Aphrodite had many lovers, both gods like Ares, and men like Anchises.

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

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!

By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.

There remain 17 fragments ( preserved in ancient anthologies ) and the Epitaph of Adonis, a mythological poem on the death of Adonis and the lament of Aphrodite ( preserved in several late medieval manuscripts of bucolic poetry ).

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.

According to another theory, myths began as allegories for philosophical or spiritual concepts: Athena represents wise judgment, Aphrodite represents desire, etc.

Cronus threw the severed testicles into the Sea ( Thalassa ), around which foam developed and transformed into the goddess of Love, Aphrodite ( which is why in some myths, Aphrodite was daughter of Uranus and the goddess Thalassa ).

The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature.

He maintained that all divine pairings in world myths and religions depicted in art e. g. Isis / Osiris, Aphrodite / Cupid, Asherah / EL, Mary / Jesus and others are retellings of the tale of Semiramis and Tammuz.

The myth about Sappho's suicide at Cape Lefkada is related to other myths linking the island to the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, and to Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey.

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

First, Aphrodite tried to rescue Aeneas but Diomedes injured her as well.

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.

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.

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

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

* In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess uses " ambrosian oil " as perfume, " divinely sweet, and made fragrant for her sake.

* 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.

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.

After Aeneas ' death, Aphrodite asked Jupiter to make her son immortal.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

According to Plutarch's source, Amathousians called the sacred grove where her shrine was situated the Wood of Aphrodite Ariadne.

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.

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.

Uzzā was worshipped by the Nabataeans, who equated her with the Graeco-Roman goddesses Aphrodite, Urania, Venus and Caelestis.

Paris offended her by choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess, earning Hera's hatred.