Aphrodite

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Aphrodite

• By Jenny Melissa

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Aphrodite

• Goddess of love and beauty.
• Famous Symbols Myrtle, Dove. 1
• Due to Aphrodites beauty, other gods feared that
  jealousy would ruin the peace among them and
  would lead to war, so Zeus married Aphrodite to
  Hephaestus (the lame smith), who was not viewed
  as a threat. Although Aphrodite did cheat on him
  with Ares (god of war). Aphrodite was also mother
  of Eros who has a cupid like figure. 2

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Origin

• Aphrodite was said to be able to make any man
  fall in love with her at first sight.
• Was called Venus in Rome, and Aphrodite in
  Greece. 3

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Aphrodites Birth

• Aphrodite was born from sea foam near the island
  Cyprus. The myth says after Cronus castrated
  Ouranos, and threw his parts behind him into the
  sea, after a while foam arose from the immortal
  flesh, soon a girl rose
  from the foam, which is
  where the name Aphrodite comes from
  
  (Foam-arisen.) According to the myth
  Aphrodite floated to shore on a scallop shell.
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• Aphrodites legendary birth place is in Panbos
  Cyprus.
• But she was also considered Dione and Zeuss
  daughter. 5

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Aphrodites Adulthood

• Aphrodites had no childhood, because in every
  image and every myth, shes born as an adult.
• Aphrodite in many storys involving her being a
  vain, bad tempered, and very easily offended
  character.
• She was very unfaithful to her husband, and her
  favorite guy was Ares.
• Aphrodite is one of the few goddesses who is very
  much responsible for the original cause of the
  Trojan war. She not only offer Helen of Sparta to
  Paris as a bribe. But she actually abducted
  Helen the first time Paris saw her.
• Even though Aphrodites wedding was originally to
  keep the gods from fighting over her. In one
  Greek myth it was said that Hera, Hephaestus
  mother banned him from Olympus, for being
  deformed and ugly. So for revenge Hephaestus,
  trapped her in a magic throne, and then demanded
  Aphrodites hand in marriage, and in return
  release Hera. 6

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The Cult of Aphrodite

• One element of the cult of Aphrodite was The Age
  of Fable (Stories of Gods and Heroes) elided
  was the practice of ritual prostitution in her
  shrines and temples. The euphemism in Greek is
  hierodule, "sacred servant." The practice was an
  inherent part of the rituals owed to Aphrodite's.
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A Creation Myth about Aphrodite

• The fair goddess stepped from the sea and grass
  grew under her feet, and gods and men call her
  Aphrodite that is Foam Born. Page 18 8
• Rescued Aeries from Diomede. 8

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The Judgment of Paris

• The god and goddesses as well as a lot of mortals
  were invited to the marriage of Peleus and
  Thetis. Only the golden Eris was not invited, but
  when she arrived with a golden apple with the
  word kallistei ("to the fairest one") carved into
  it. Eris threw the golden apple among the
  goddesses. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all
  claimed they were the fairest, and so they were
  the rightful owner of the apple. The goddesses
  chose to ask Zeus, who didnt want to favor one
  of the goddesses. So Zeus asked Paris to choose.
  Hera tried to bribe Paris with Asia Minor, while
  Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle.
  But Aphrodite whispered to Paris that if he were
  to choose her as the fairest he would have the
  most beautiful mortal woman in the world as a
  wife, so Paris said Aphrodite was the fairest.
  This women was Helen. The other goddesses were so
  mad by this and through Helens abduction by
  Paris they started the Trojan War. 9

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Information From

• 1 Myth Meaning Page 11
• 2 http//homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Aphrodite.
  html
• 3 http//www.helium.com/items/1518376-greek-myth
  ology-who-is-aphrodite-the-goddess-of-love-and-bea
  uty
• 4 http//www.theoi.com/Olympios/Aphrodite.html
• 5 http//www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeGoddess
  .htmlForeign
• 6 http//homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Aphrodite.
  html
• 7 http//www.theoi.com/Cult/AphroditeCult.html
• 8 Greek Mythology by John Pinsent page 16, 18,
  19, 22, 29, 30, 31, 33, 43, 53, 57, 79, 82, 117
• 9 http//www.theoi.com/Olympios/Aphrodite.html