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