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.

Venera 4 (, Венера meaning Venus ; manufacturer's designation: 1V ( V-67 )) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus.

The Medici Venus, regarded as one of the finest Classical sculptures in existence, caused the French to promote the Venus de Milo as a greater treasure than that which they recently had lost.

This is concordant with the European pagan tradition, which named the days of the week after the seven Classical planets ( in order Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn ), naming the first day of the week for the Sun, perceived as most important, and moving to those perceived as lesser.

Despite the presence in the story of Neptune, Mercury, Venus and other immortals, she does not date from Classical times, was born around 1000, and has a character almost diametrically opposed to that cited for her namesake in the previous paragraph.

He proved himself a true child of the Renaissance by depicting subjects of Classical mythology in such pictures as the Venus, Mars, and Cupid, The Death of Procris, the Perseus and Andromeda series, at the Uffizi, and many others.

Secondly, within the context of Classical Greek myth ( in which Vulcan constructs ) casts an invisible network in order to ensnare Venus, his wife in flagrante delicto with her lover Mars.

The Classical myth of Venus and Mars trapped by Vulcan's cunning invention is also a lesser-known example of the " fixing " and union of the opposites in the alchemical opus.

The new All Hallows took its inspiration from the Classical world and was remarkably simple in form, with no aisles ; its interior consists solely of a barrel-vaulted nave with a half-dome apse at the far end, with decoration deriving from the ancient Temple of Venus and Rome in the city of Rome.

The Oyarsa of Venus is feminine, like the Classical goddess Venus.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates ה ֵ יל ֵ ל as lucifer, meaning " the morning star, the planet Venus " ( or, as an adjective, " light-bringing "), The Septuagint renders ה ֵ יל ֵ ל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος ( heōsphoros ) meaning " morning star ".

The first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced ( white phosphorus, in 1669 ) emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen – hence its name given from Greek mythology, meaning " light-bearer " ( Latin Lucifer ), referring to the " Morning Star ", the planet Venus.

The Trojan origins of Rome became particularly important in the propaganda of Julius Caesar, whose family claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas's son Iulus ( hence the Latin gens name Iulius ), and during the reign of Augustus ; see for instance the Tabulae Iliacae and the " Troy Game " presented frequently by the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Venus embodies sex, beauty, enticement, seduction and persuasive female charm among the community of immortal gods ; in Latin orthography, her name is indistinguishable from the Latin noun venus (" sexual love " and " sexual desire "), from which it derives.

These political marriages were summed up in the following Latin elegiac couplet: Bella gerant aliī, tū fēlix Austria nūbe / Nam quae Mars aliīs, dat tibi regna Venus, " Let others wage war, but thou, O happy Austria, marry ; for those kingdoms which Mars gives to others, Venus gives to thee.

The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin dies Veneris or " day of Venus " ( a translation of Greek Aphrodites hemera ) such as vendredi in French, venerdì in Italian, viernes in Spanish, divendres in Catalan, vennari in Corsican, and vineri in Romanian.

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.

" Varro, however, offers a Latin etymology from lubere, " to be pleasing ," related to libido, that attempts to explain the goddess's connection to Venus.

In human anatomy, and in mammals in general, the mons pubis ( Latin for " pubic mound "), also known as the mons veneris ( Latin, mound of Venus ) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis.

Gregorio Luke, former director of Museum of Latin American Art who conducted lectures about belly buttons told, " The belly button has been a sign of beauty in goddesses as different as Astarte, Venus or Aphrodite.

Putative residents of Venus are often referred to as Venusians, although Venerians would be more consistent with the Latin etymon.

Pervigilium Veneris, the Vigil of Venus, is a Latin poem, probably written in the 4th century.

Together they form the seven classical planets, as well as the names of the seven days of the week-Sun-day, Moon-day, Saturn-day, and in Latin, ' Martis ' ( Mars, Tuesday ), ' Mercurii ' ( Wednesday ), ' Iovis ' ( Jupiter, Thursday ) and ' Veneris ' ( Venus, Friday ).

His name is sometimes conflated with the names for his brother, the personification of the planet as the " morning star " Eosphorus ( Greek, " bearer of dawn ") or Phosphorus ( Ancient Greek:, " bearer of light ", often translated as " Lucifer " in Latin ), since they are all personifications of the same planet Venus.

" Heosphoros " in the Greek LXX Septuagint and " Lucifer " in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew " Helel " ( Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one ), " son of Shahar ( Dawn )" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14: 12.

The Latin word lucifer, corresponding to Greek φωσφόρος, was used as a name for the morning star and thus appeared in the Vulgate translation of the Hebrew word ה ֵ יל ֵ ל ( helel )-meaning Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one-in, where the Septuagint Greek version uses, not Φωσφόρος, but Ἑωσφόρος.

The Latin poet Ovid, speaking of Phosphorus and Hesperus ( the Evening Star, the evening appearance of the planet Venus ) as identical, makes him the father of Daedalion.

it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity, although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at about 600-degrees.

The measurements made with the NRL 50-foot reflector, which is altitude-azimuth-mounted, would have shown a systematic change with local hour angle in the measured intensities of Venus and Jupiter if a substantial part of the radiation had been linearly polarized.

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

The Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas is a template for a tapestry made by this factory.

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.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

One example which could have been overlooked without historical records is the Mayan interest in the planet Venus.

Aveni claims that another building associated with the planet Venus in the form of Kukulcan, and the rainy season at Chichen Itza is the Caracol.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

A typical example is the so-called Venus of Willendorf, one of many Paleolithic Venus figurines with ample hips and bosom.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Philosophus ( 4 = 7 ) is the elemental grade attributed to fire ; this grade is also attributed to the Qabalistic Sephirah Netzach and the planet Venus.