By: Justine Case
Aphrodite is a gorgeous,
perfect, eternally young
woman with a beautiful
body. She spent a lot of time
meddling in the affairs of
mortals, mostly for her own
amusement.
Goddess of
Love!
Her Name
• She is most know by
Aphrodite
• Her Roman equivalent is the
goddess Venus
• Aphrodite is also known as
Cytherea and Cypris
the Greek Goddess of Love and beauty
 Because of her beauty other gods feared
that jealousy would interrupt the peace
among them and lead to war.
 Zeus married her to Hephaestus , who was
not viewed as a threat.
 Aphrodite had many lovers, both gods like
Ares, and men like Anchises.
 became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche
legend, and later was both Adonis' lover and
his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings
were said to be children of Aphrodite.
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dazzling beauty.
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Aphrodite had power unlike any other god.
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She could make potions and spells to get people to fall in love
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True love
Jealous of others being more beautiful than her
Her General
Symbols
Her Animal Symbols
•Dolphin
• Swan
• Dove
•Sparrow
• Bees
• Goats
The swan is the
most known
symbol!
The most famous example of Aphrodite's
influence is the Judgment of Paris
 an event in which Aphrodite's actions indirectly
caused the Trojan War
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Zeus had a celebration in account of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Eris, the
goddess of discord was not invited. She was angered by this, so she went to the
party and put a golden apple, the Apple of Discord, into the proceedings. There was
a description on it that said “for the fairest.” Three goddesses claimed the apple:
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. They asked Zeus to judge which one was the fairest,
he declared the Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge the cases. Each goddess used
there powers in attempt to bribe Paris. Hera offered to make him King of Europe
and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite the love of the
world's most beautiful woman. Paris accepted Aphrodite's gift and awarded the
apple to her. Paris received Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand
ships.”
Zeus and Dione
 One genealogy gives her parents as Zeus,
King of the Gods, and Dione, an early
earth/mother goddess.
 More commonly, she was believed to be born
of the foam in the sea which bubbled around
the severed member of Ouranos when Kronos
slew him.
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 Ares.
Hermes
 Dionysus
 Adonois
 Pan
 Zeus
 Poseidon
 Anchises
 Butes
And many more… lets just say Aphrodite was
not very faithful.
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Her Offspring
Eros- (Cupid) in some accounts is said to
be the son of Aphrodite and Ares.
Phobos (fear)- son of Aphrodite and
Ares.
Deimos (dread)- son of Aphrodite and
Ares.
Harmonia (harmony)- daughter of
Aphrodite and Ares,
Himeros (lust)- son of Aphrodite and
Ares.
Anteros (requited love/avenger of
unrequited
love)- son of Aphrodite and Ares.
Pothos (desire)- son of Aphrodite
Peitho (persuasion)- daughter of Aphrodite (sometimes by Hermes)
Hermaphroditus- son of Aphrodite and Hermes.
Eunomia and Tyche- daughters of Aphrodite and Hermes,
Rhodos- son of Aphrodite and Hermes
Priapus- son of Aphrodite by either Hermes, Dionysus, Adonis, Pan or
Zeus, depending on the source.
Hymen/Hymenaios/Hymenaeus- son of
Aphrodite and Dionysus
Rhode- sometimes given as the daughter
of Aphrodite and Poseidon
Herophile/Herophilos/Herophilusdaughter of Aphrodite and Posiedon.
Beroe- daughter of Aphrodite and
Adonis
Aeneas- son of Aphrodite and
Anchises.
Lyros- son of Aphrodite and Anchises.
Eryx- son of Aphrodite and Butes.
Aphrodite was jealous of the beauty of a mortal woman named Psyche. She asked
Eros (Cupid) to use his golden arrows to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest
man on earth. Eros agreed, but then fell in love with Psyche on his own, by
accidentally pricking himself with a golden arrow. Psyches parents visited an oracle
who said her fate was to not be with a mortal and that she could find her love on a
certain mountain. Eros had bribed the oracle to tell Psyches parents this. So Psyche
climbed the mountain. She came to a cave, where she met Eros. Every night they
came to this cave “to be together.” Her sisters told her that convinced her that her
husband was a monster, and she should strike him with a dagger. So one night she
lit a lamp, but recognizing Eros instantly, she dropped her dagger. Oil spilled from
the lamp onto his shoulder, awaking him, and he fled, saying "Love cannot live
where there is no trust!“ Psyche told her sisters about what happened and the
sisters went to the mountain in hope that Eros would fall in love with one of them.
Eros did not love them and the sisters fell to their death at the base of the
mountain. Psyche went looking for Eros in hope that they would make up. She ran
into Demeter, he made her sort grains. When she was finished Demeter told her to
find Eros mother Aphrodite. Psyche found Aphrodite who made her do a similar task
as Demeter did, but gave an impossible deadline. Eros still loved her so he got ants
to help her move the grain into piles. When Aphrodite found she was able to finish
she was furious and sent her to get golden wool from the vicious sheep. A river god
told her to wait till noon to get the wool. When Psyche came back with the wool
Aphrodite sent Psyche to Hades to get some beauty.
A voice stopped her at the last moment and told her a route that would lead her
to enter and return alive, as well as telling her how to pass the three-headed dog
Cerberus, Charonand the other dangers of the route. She was to not lend a hand to
anyone in need. She baked two barley cakes for Cerberus, and took two coins for
Charon. Psyche got the beauty and left the underworld she decided to open the
box and take a little bit of the beauty for herself, thinking that if she did so, Eros
would surely love her. Inside was a "Stygian sleep," which overtook her. Eros, who
had forgiven her, flew to her body and wiped the sleep from her eyes, then begged
Zeus and Aphrodite for their consent to his wedding of Psyche. They agreed and
Zeus made her immortal. Aphrodite danced at the wedding of Eros and Psyche, and
their subsequent child was named Hedone.
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