* April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo ( Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC ) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

Aphrodite of Milos (, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou ), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture.

Although the Aphrodite of Milos is widely renowned for the mystery of her missing arms enough evidence remains to prove that the right arm of the statue was lowered across the torso with the right hand resting on her raised left knee so it would seem to hold the sliding drapery wrapped around the hips and legs in place.

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.

* Aphrodite of Milos, ( Venus de Milo ) in the Louvre, Paris

" Venus de Milo | Aphrodite of Milos "

* April 8-Venus de Milo ( Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC ) is discovered on the island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

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.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

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

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

Aphrodite herself was sometimes also referred to as " Dione.

In some tales, Aphrodite was a daughter of Zeus and Thalassa ( the sea ).

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.

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 Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

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 was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.

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.

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 adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

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

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.

Alcinous' court bard sings of the discovered adultery of Ares and Aphrodite ( Odyssey 8 266-366 ), and takes up a tale of Odysseus while the Ithacan wanderer listens on ( Odyssey 8 499-520 ).

The excavators discovered the final stage of the Temple of Aphrodite, also known as Aphrodisias, which dates approximately to the first century BC.

Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.

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.

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.

The location of Phanagoria was determined in the 18th century, when marble statue bases with dedications to Aphrodite were discovered there.

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.

* 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.

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.

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

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.

While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.

Hero ( mythical priestess ), in Greek mythology, priestess of Aphrodite, goddess of love, at Sestos, a town on the Hellespont ( now Dardanelles ).

: 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.

Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos (" Aphrodite of all the People ") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.

Artemis would later tell Theseus the truth, promising to avenge her loyal follower on another follower of Aphrodite.