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= = =//Aphrodite: Goddess of Love & Beauty //= HOME

*to the Romans, Aphrodite was known as Venus.

ORIGINS: BIRTH



 * One genealogy gives her parents as Zeus, King of Gods, and Dione, an early Earth/mother goddess.
 * Birth: She rose up from the sea of foam as a naked and fully developed beautiful woman and she rode on a scallop shell.
 * She is said to be older than Time.
 * Her origins were Babylonian and Sumerian.

POWERS:

 * ====Goddess of Love & Beauty ====
 * ====Her strengths: potent sexual attractiveness, amazing beauty ====

INTERACTIONS W/ MORTALS:
> ====Most men fell in love with her because her beauty was very powerful ====
 * ====She admires potently masculine men and their capacity for success and combativeness. ====

INTERESTING FACTS:

 * Aphrodite was very generous in using her powers to help her followers. She helped Meilanion gain Atalanta for his wife by giving him the golden apples that enabled him to distract and overtake Atalanta in a foot race.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aphrodite also used her powers to destroy those who tried to disrupt or prevent the natural workings of love and sexuality.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aphrodite was too proud for any of her suitors and rejected them all. As a punishment, Zeus made her the wife of Hephaestus, a homely and lame smith-god.

**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">EVENT: **

 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Event: Trojan War
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Goddesses/Gods involved: Athena, Hera, Aphrodite
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Story: Three goddesses arguing about their beauty and who has the right to possess the prize. The designated judge was really handsome and it turned out to be a young noble Trojan youth, named Paris. He was the one that has to decided who's beauty was the best. The three goddesses started to offer bribes to Paris. Hera, Queen of Olympus, took Paris and told him she would help him rule the world. Athena, Goddess of War, said she would make him victorious in battle. Aphrodite studied Paris and decided he would be more impressed with the guaranteed love of the most beautiful woman in he world. Paris instantly awarded the golden apple to Aphrodite, who in turn approved him to go with Helen, who became infamous as Helen of Troy. Helen's husband and his brother raised a Greek army to regain his wife, and this was the inception of the Trojan War.