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2006-08-26 04:53:36 · 6 answers · asked by Vanessa G 2 in Education & Reference Studying Abroad

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Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and fertility.

2006-08-26 04:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by parental unit 7 · 0 0

From Bulfinch's Mythology:
Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of love and beauty, was the daughter of Jupiter and Dione. Others say that Venus sprang from the foam of the sea. The zephyr wafted her along the waves to the Isle of Cyprus, where she was received and attired by the Seasons, and then led to the assembly of the gods. All were charmed with her beauty, and each one demanded her for his wife. Jupiter gave her to Vulcan, in gratitude for the service he had rendered in forging thunderbolts. So the most beautiful of the goddesses became the wife of the most ill-favored of gods. Venus possessed an embroidered girdle called Cestus, which had the power ofinspiring love. Her favorite birds were swans and doves, and the plants sacred to her were the rose and the myrtle.

2006-08-26 12:44:27 · answer #2 · answered by Nass 4 · 0 0

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. Her Roman analogue is Venus. Her Mesopotamian counterpart was Ishtar. Her Egyptian counterpart is Hathor, and her Syro-Palestinian counterpart was `Ashtart (in standard Greek spelling Astarte); her Etruscan equivalent was Turan. She has parallels to Indo-European dawn goddesses such as Ushas or Aurora.

The name is connected by popular etymology with "foam", interpreting it as "risen from the foam". It has reflexes in Messapic and Etruscan (whence April), which were probably loaned from Greek. Attempts to derive the name from Semitic Aštoret, via undocumented Hittite transmission, remain doubtful. A suggestion by Hammarström, rejected by Hjalmar Frisk, connects the name with πρύτανις, a loan into Greek from a cognate of Etruscan (e)pruni, "lord" or similar.

2006-08-26 04:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0 0

She originates from greek mythology.

2006-08-26 05:00:48 · answer #4 · answered by Surfin'_the_Tide 3 · 0 0

she is a greek godess

she's love and beauty


she is from greek mythology

2006-08-26 13:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

greek god

2006-08-26 04:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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