Goddess of Love.



Homer says that Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and the oceanid Dione. Hesiod says that Aphrodite was formed from the remains of the titan, Ouranos. A part of Ouranus was cut off and thrown in to the sea by his son Cronus. From that severed part, emerged Aphrodite who floated back to land on a giant seashell. That is what Aphrodite by Botticelli depicts. There are also similarities between her and Astarte, an ancient semitic goddess. In Rome, she is known as Venus



She was married to Haephaestus, but she prefers Ares, the god of war. She had kids with both gods.

Children
Eros often appeared as a winged infant equipped with a bow and a quiver full of love darts which never missed their mark and took effect on both god and man. His half-brother
Anteros, son of Ares, punished those who failed to return the love of others.
Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes, was welded with a nymph into a body with both sexes.
Hymen and Priapus, sons of Dionysus, While Hymen was worshipped as the god of marriage, the monstrously ugly Priapus represented human lust.

Aphrodite's offspring show just how total her control over love and other passions truly was. Through her children, she had power over all areas of human emotion. As all people, despite their character or position in life, possessed some capacity for feeling, Aphrodite's influence was perhaps more widespread than that of any other god.

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