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.

The Etymologicum Magnum presents a medieval learned pseudo-etymology, explaining Aphrodite as derived from the compound habrodiaitos (" she who lives delicately " from habros + diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a " familiar " characteristic of Greek " obvious from the Macedonians ".

Aphrodite and Apollo rescue Aeneas from combat with Diomedes of Argos, who nearly kills him, and carry him away to Pergamos for healing.

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.

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.

: 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.

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.

The duel, however, leads to inconclusive results due to intervention by Aphrodite who leads Paris off the field.

* Helene, a figure in Greek mythology who was a friend of Aphrodite and helped her seduce Adonis.

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.

: Hermes bringing to Paris the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: ' Here is Hermes, who is showing to Paris, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

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 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

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.

Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the " fairest ", should receive the apple.

In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy.

Diomedes won great renown amongst the Achaeans, killing the Trojan hero Pandaros and nearly killing Aeneas, who was only saved by his mother, Aphrodite.

In most traditions he is married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort is Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione.

Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta ( a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention ), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him ( according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly ).

Aglaea was married to Hephaestus after his divorce from Aphrodite, and by him became mother of Eucleia (“ Good Repute ”), Eupheme (“ Acclaim ”), Euthenia (“ Prosperity ”), and Philophrosyne (“ Welcome ”).

Another theory is that the entire line of Cadmus was cursed, either by Ares, when Cadmus killed his serpent, or else by Hephaestus, who resented the fact that Cadmus married Harmonia, the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, Hephaestus's straying wife.

After the death of their parents, Aphrodite took care of Cleodora and Merope, Hera taught them to be proper women, and Athena made them accomplished ; but when Aphrodite went to see Zeus to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the furies.

* Diodoros or Diodorus from Zeus ( genitive of Zeus is ' dios ') and Jovianus and Giovanni from Jupiter ; Poseidonios from Poseidon ; Athenodoros / Athenodora from Athena and Minervina from Minerva ; Apollodoros / Apollodora and Apollonios from Apollon ; Artemisia and Artemidoros / Artemidora from Artemis ; Aphrodesia from Aphrodite ; Hephaistion from Hephaistos ; Aria from Ares ; Hermione from Hermes ; Heliodoros / a from Helios ; Fortunatus from Fortuna ; Serapion from Serapis and Isidoros or Isidora from Isis.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 ).

Thrace was Ares ' birthplace, true home, and refuge after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the general mockery of the other gods.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus.

Hephaestus was Aphrodite ’ s husband and found out about the affair because Helios told him that he had seen Ares and Aphrodite lying together.