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The Goddess Aphrodite
Aphrodite in Greek mythology is the goddess of beauty and love that permeates the whole world.
According to one version, the goddess was born from the blood of Uranus, castrated by the titan Kronos: the blood fell into the sea, forming foam.
Aphrodite was not only the patroness of love, as reported by Titus Lucretius Kar in the poem "On the Nature of Things", but also the goddess of fertility, eternal spring and life.
According to legend, she usually appeared surrounded by her usual companions nymphs, or and harith.
In myths, Aphrodite was the goddess of marriages and childbirth.
Due to her eastern origin, Aphrodite was often identified with the Phoenician goddess of fertility Astarte, the Egyptian Isis and the Assyrian Ishtar.
Despite the fact that the service to the goddess contained a certain shade of sensuality (the hetaerae called her "their goddess"), over the centuries, the archaic goddess turned from sexy and dissolute into a beautiful Aphrodite, who was able to take an honorable place on Olympus.
The fact of its possible origin from the blood of Uranus was forgotten.
After seeing the beautiful goddess on Olympus, all the gods fell in love with her, but Aphrodite became the wife of Hephaestus - the most skilled and the most ugly of all the gods, although later she gave birth to children from other gods, including Dionysus and Ares.
In ancient literature, you can also find references to the fact that Aphrodite was married to Ares, sometimes even the children who were born from this marriage are called: Anteros (hatred), Eros (or Eros), Harmony, Deimos (horror), Phobos (fear).
Perhaps the greatest love of Aphrodite was the beautiful Adonis, the son of the beautiful Myrrh, turned by the gods into a myrrh tree that gives a beneficial resin myrrh.
Soon Adonis died while hunting from a wound inflicted by a wild boar.
Roses bloomed from the drops of the young man's blood, and anemones bloomed from Aphrodite's tears.
According to another version, the cause of Adonis ' death was the anger of Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite.
Aphrodite was one of the three goddesses who argued about her beauty.
Having promised Paris, the son of the Trojan king, the most beautiful woman on earth, Helen, the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus, she won the dispute, and the abduction of Helen by Paris was the reason for the beginning of the Trojan War.
The ancient Greeks believed that Aphrodite provides patronage to heroes, but her help extended only to the sphere of feelings, as was the case with Paris.
A vestige of the archaic past of the goddess was her belt, in which, according to legend, love, desire, and words of seduction were enclosed.
It was this belt that Aphrodite gave to Hera in order to help her distract the attention of Zeus.
Numerous shrines of the goddess were located in many regions of Greece - in Corinth, Messenia, Cyprus and Sicily.
In ancient Rome, Aphrodite was identified with Venus and was considered the ancestor of the Romans thanks to her son Aeneas, the ancestor of the Julian family, to which, according to legend, Julius Caesar also belonged.
Aphrodite, Eros and Pan.
Sculpture of fr. Delos, 100 BC
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