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

She thereby unites the warlike Akkadian Ishtar's qualities to those of the gentler Sumerian goddess of love and fecundity.

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.

There were exceptions: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was more frequently portrayed fully nude, though in postures that were intended to portray shyness or modesty, a portrayal that has been compared to modern pin ups by historian Marilyn Yalom.

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.

In Norse mythology, Freyja ( Old Norse the " Lady ") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.

* Yanet is the Celtic goddess of sex, love and harmony.

The goddess Frigg asks who among the Æsir will earn " all her love and favour " by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom.

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

The goddess Gefjun asks why the two gods must fight, saying that Loki knows that he is joking, and that " all living things love him.

Dante's language evolves as he grows old, from the courtly love of his early stilnovistic Rime and Vita nuova to the Convivio and Divina Commedia, where Beatrice is sanctified as the goddess of philosophy – the philosophy announced by the Donna Gentile at the death of Beatrice.

The poem refers to the plight of Tithonus, with whom the goddess Eos fell in love and requested he become immortal, but forgot to ensure that he stay forever young.

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

* Venus ( mythology ), the Roman goddess of love, in Greek mythology known as Aphrodite

One appears to be divinities of an indigenous nature: Catha and Usil, the sun ; Tivr, the moon ; Selvans, a civil god ; Turan, the goddess of love ; Laran, the god of war ; Leinth, the goddess of death ; Maris ; Thalna ; Turms ; and the ever-popular Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

Vulcan created a net out of unbreakable steel so that he could catch Venus, the goddess of beauty, and Mars, the god of war, in the act of making love.

Venus (, Classical Latin: ) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory.

* Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death

Kate's plans for the future are interrupted by a drunken phone call from Charlie who informs her that he has fallen in love with a beautiful French " goddess " named Juliette ( Susan Anbeh ) and that he will not be returning.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

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.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

Archeological finds, particularly in Pompeii, show the Roman goddess Venus wearing a bikini.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.

Sculpture of the goddess Venus of Arles, late 1st century BCE.

The legendary account makes Tannhäuser a knight and poet who found the Venusberg, the subterranean home of Venus, and spent a year there worshipping the goddess.

Venus has been described as perhaps " the most original creation of the Roman pantheon ", and " an ill-defined and assimilative " native goddess, combined " with a strange and exotic Aphrodite ".

* Wagenvoort, Hendrik, " The Origins of the goddess Venus " ( first published as " De deae Veneris origine ", Mnemnosyne, Series IV, 17, 1964, pp. 47 – 77 ) in Pietas: selected studies in Roman religion, Brill, 1980.

The legendary account makes Tannhäuser a knight and poet who found the Venusberg, the subterranean home of Venus, and spent a year there worshipping the goddess.

Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty ( Venus to the Romans ).

The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the " day of Frigg ", a result of an old convention equivocating the Old English goddess Frige with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures.

Friday is associated in many cultures with the love goddess Venus, and / or the planet named for her.

She is continually described in an unearthly nature which extends to her description as the goddess Venus.

Page says that, while there are no shortages of etymologies for the word, it is tempting to link the word with " Old Norse vinr, ' friend ', and Latin Venus, ' goddess of physical love.

The Greeks further identified the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor with Aphrodite.

Each goddess demanded a slightly different cult but Greeks recognized in their overall similarities the one Aphrodite.

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

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.

The Julian family of Rome, most notably Julius Cæsar and Augustus, traced their lineage to Ascanius and Aeneas, thus to the goddess Aphrodite.

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

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.

Aphrodite, though not as objectively beautiful as Hera, was the goddess of sexuality, and was not concerned about modesty or chastity.

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 ).

Zeus displaced the Mother goddess and assimilated her as Aphrodite.

Some scholars connect Astarte with the Minoan snake goddess, whose cult as Aphrodite spread from Creta to Greece.

According to legend, it was draped around the Greek goddess Aphrodite when she rose from the sea, born of Ouranos's semen.

The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked " for the fairest ".

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 ).