प्राचीन पौराणिक कथाओं में ज़ीउस की प्रेम और सौंदर्य और बेटी की देवी; रोमन वीनस के साथ पहचाना गया

aphrodite's Usage Examples:

The dead, who returned to the Great Mother, were objects of a sort of heroworship. This early nature-cult explains many anomalous features of Hellenic religion, especially in the cults of Artemis and Aphrodite.

The plasma may be pink (Magelona) or yellow (Aphrodite) in which cases the colour is owing to another pigment.

His name is preserved in the Sicilian Minoa, and his tomb was pointed out in the neighbourhood of Agrigentum, with a shrine above dedicated to his native Aphrodite, the lady of the dove; and in this connexion it must be observed that the cult of Eryx perpetuates to much later times the characteristic features of the worship of the Cretan Nature goddess, as now revealed to us in the palace of Cnossus and elsewhere.

iv., ch., 8, 9; Drumann, Geschichte Roms, 1 A short epigram on Aphrodite in the Greek Anthology (Anth.

Thus Diodorus Siculus, using Ctesias, tells how she fell in love with a youth who was 823 worshipping at the shrine of Aphrodite, and by him became the mother of Semiramis, the Assyrian queen, and how in shame she flung herself into a pool at Ascalon or Hierapolis and was changed into a fish (W.

"Aphrodite" in Roscher's Lexicon der gr.

As the plant of purity it was contrasted with the rose of Aphrodite.

Here was the ancienfcity'of Tentyra, capital of the Tentyrite nome, the sixth of Upper Egypt, and the principal seat of the worship of Hathor [[[Aphrodite]]] the cow-goddess of love and joy.

Aphrodite and Apollo preserved it from corruption and mutilation.

In Homer Ares is the lover of Aphrodite, the wife of Hephaestus, who catches them together in a net and holds them up to the ridicule of the gods.

aphrodite's Meaning':

goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus