APHRODITE

The Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure,

and Sexual Rapture

Aphrodite

Spheres of Influence:

• Love

• Beauty

• Pleasure

• Sexual Rapture

• In Rome Cupid is her messenger

Relationships:• Wife of Hephaestus/ Vulcan

• Involved with Ares/Mars

• Born from Uranus (Father of the Gods)

Symbols:• Shells

• Dove

• Dolphin

• Girdle

• Mirror

Roman Name: Venus

HEAD OF A LARGER-THAN-LIFE STATUE, COPYING A STATUE BY

PRAXITELES (370-360 BC) STATUE OF 1ST CENTURY AD BY PRAXITELES

FIGURINE OF APHRODITE AND EROS,

FOUND IN THE DISTRICT OF CORINTHIA

STATUE OF 400 BC

APHRODITE (VENUS), GAZING AT HER LOVER MARS WHILE HE IS SLEEPING

PAINTING OF 1483 BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445-1510)

Bibliography:

The goddess emerging from the sea as a fully grown woman

Painting of 1482 by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Uffizi Gallery of

Florence in Italy

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aphrodite.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite

http://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/aphrodite/#aphrodite-symbols