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noun - goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology
The goddess of love and beauty.
APHRODITE - Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus, which is name...
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| This goddess was "mighty" fertile, bearing Harmonia, Aeneas & Eros, among others |
| Dione, who was either a nymph or a Titan, gave birth to this Greek goddess of love & beauty |
| You could say this love goddess' eye was on the sparrow because the sparrow was sacred to her |
| Plato said this Greek love goddess was actually 2 individuals: Urania & Pandemos |
| "Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of" this beautiful goddess |
| Etymologically, the name of this Greek goddess may mean "foam-risen" |
| Though depicted with the head of a cow, Hathor is a goddess of beauty equated with this Greek goddess |
| The size of South America, a highland surface area on Venus is named for this Greek goddess |
| Don't be disarmed by the fact that this goddess was the daughter of Zeus & Dione |
| Anchises bragged about romancing this Greek love goddess, so Zeus struck him with lightning |
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| A brightly colored butterfly (Argynnis aphrodite) of North America. |
| bAphroditeb ( supisupfrdati af-r-DY-tee Greek: ) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. She is identified with the planet Venus. As with many ancient Greek deities, there is more than one story about her origins. |
| goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology identified with Roman Venus |
| in Greek mythology ( ancient stories), the goddess ( female god) of beauty and love: |
| The goddess of beauty, fertility, and sexual love. She is variously described as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, or as being born from the sea. |
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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess Venus, with whom Aphrodite was extensively syncretized. Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. * The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess. She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of "sacred prostitution", an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous. * In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (aphros) produced by Uran |
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