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Aphrodite ( ; Greek ) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
Thus Aphrodite is of an older generation than Zeus.
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 most common English pronunciation of Aphrodite is.
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.

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

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Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.
Adonis was killed by a wild boar, said to have been sent vicariously by Artemis, jealous of Adonis ' hunting skills or in retaliation for Aphrodite instigating the death of Hippolytus, a favorite of the huntress goddess ; or by Aphrodite's paramour, Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite's love for Adonis ; or by Apollo, to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son, Erymanthus.
This spring, according to Pausanias ( 2. 5. 1 ) was behind the temple to Aphrodite and people said its water was the same as that of the spring Peirene, the water in the city flowing from it underground.
# It was also said that Myrrha fled from her father and Aphrodite turned her into a tree.
Apelles is said to have been working on a painting of Aphrodite of Kos when he died, and the painting was left unfinished for no one could be found with skill enough to complete it.
He is said to have laughed himself to death after painting a funny old woman ( supposedly the woman had ordered a painting of Aphrodite and demanded that she be used as his model ).
As a chase pilot for the Operation Aphrodite flights in 1944, Elliott said he witnessed the death of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. over Blythburgh, England.
It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 10, 1868, and named after Dione, a Titaness in Greek mythology who was sometimes said to have been the mother of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
" Crime reporter Aphrodite Jones wrote about what she saw as extreme media spin in her 2007 book Michael Jackson Conspiracy, which she self-published because, she said, all of the publishers she talked to were unwilling to touch a pro-Jackson book.
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin said, " Even when it becomes unmistakably lightweight, Mighty Aphrodite remains witty, agile and handsomely made.
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik said the film was " an inventive movie, imaginative and rich in detail " and added, " Woody Allen's incredible wit is at the heart of all that's wonderful in Mighty Aphrodite, and Woody Allen's incredible ego is at the core of its major flaw.
In Greek mythology, the goddess Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, from which she emerged on a sea shell at the island of Cythera, and as such was sometimes known as Cytherea.

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The Acropolis, the Temple of Aphrodite, the market, the city ’ s walls, the basilica and the port have all been excavated.
Two small sanctuaries, with terracotta votive offerings of Graeco-Phoenician age, lie not far off, but the location of the great shrines of Adonis and Aphrodite have not been identified ( M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, i. ch. 1 ).
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 ).
The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life.
Paris gave the crown to Ares without hesitation ; it was this apparent honesty in judgment that prompted the gods of Olympus to have Paris arbitrate the divine contest between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena.
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.
The same or a different goddess may have been a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite.
* Certain mythological stories or deities that seem to have no parallels in the mythologies of other Indo-European peoples ( e. g. the Olympians Athena, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite, whose origins seem Anatolian / Levantine ).
" " All three names — Halia, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, and furthermore also Kapheira — must have been applied to one and the same great goddess ", Karl Kerenyi observes.
Ovid and Servius suggest that Hippomenes forgot to pay the tribute to Aphrodite he had promised for helping him, and consequently, during the two's stay at Cybele's temple, Aphrodite caused them to have sex after going mad with lust, knowing that this would scorn Cybele, and this indeed resulted in Cybele ( or Zeus according to Hyginus ) transforming them into lions.
After the reinstatement of democracy, Conon rebuilt the walls in 393 BC, founded the temple of Aphrodite Euploia and the sanctuary of Zeus Sotiros and Athena, and built the famous Skevothiki of Philon, the ruins of which have been discovered at Zea harbour.
480 – 406 BCE ) whose play Medea seems to have offended Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure, and whose Hippolytus, narratively introduced by Aphrodite, Goddess of Love in person, is suspected to have displeased his contemporary audiences because he portrayed Phaedra as too lusty.
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.
Numerous fine works of art have been found on this site, notably the Aphrodite in Paris, the Asclepius in London, and the Poseidon and the archaic Apollo in Athens.
In 1995, the toy store was featured in Woody Allen ’ s Mighty Aphrodite in the final scene where main characters Lenny and Linda have a chance encounter.

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