Aphrodite ( ; Greek ) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.

Thus Aphrodite is of an older generation than Zeus.

The most common English pronunciation of Aphrodite is.

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite ( for which reason she is called " foam-arisen "), while the Erinyes ( furies ) emerged from the drops of blood.

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.

Among the neo-Platonists and eventually their Christian interpreters, Aphrodite Ourania figures as the celestial Aphrodite, representing the love of body and soul, while Aphrodite Pandemos is associated with mere physical love.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

Thus, according to the character Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, Aphrodite is two goddesses, one older while the other younger.

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

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

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

* 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.

Aeneas ' mother Aphrodite frequently comes to his aid on the battlefield ; he is a favorite of Apollo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.