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=//**﻿**// = Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. She was born in the sea of foam. The love goddess was married to the homely craftsman-god Hephaestus. She was unfaithful to him with Ares. When the Trojan prince Paris was asked to judge which of three Olympian goddesses was the most, he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Athena. The latter two had hoped to bribe him with power and victory in battle, but Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Aphrodite's Roman name was Venus.