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Aphrodite

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)

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Aphrodite

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  1. Aphrodite The Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Sexual Rapture

  2. 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

  3. Aphrodite (Venus), gazing at her lover Mars while he is sleepingPainting of 1483 by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Figurine of Aphrodite and Eros, found in the district of CorinthiaStatue of 400 BC

  4. Bibliography: The goddess emerging from the sea as a fully grown womanPainting 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

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