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2006-08-28 05:16:47 · 18 answers · asked by JJ 1 in Education & Reference Other - Education

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Aphrodite. I think that's how you spell it.

2006-08-28 05:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Short and sweet 3 · 2 0

Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty.

2006-08-28 12:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by littlestory 3 · 0 0

Venus Aphrodite

2006-08-28 12:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by Taste the rainbow 5 · 0 0

Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love.

Aphrodite was called Venus by the Romans.

2006-08-28 12:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Aphrodite

2006-09-01 10:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by L£X 2 · 1 0

I think it's Aphrodite. Venus if the goddess of Love ,right?

2006-08-28 12:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by 77 snoodles 2 · 0 0

Aphrodite

2006-08-28 12:19:58 · answer #7 · answered by rachel o 3 · 1 0

Origins
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 Ἀφροδίτη the name is connected by popular etymology with ἀφρός "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[1], rejected by Hjalmar Frisk, connects the name with πρύτανις, a loan into Greek from a cognate of Etruscan (e)pruni, "lord" or similar.
Aphrodite, in many of the myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband. Hephaestus, of course, is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities; Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war. In Homer's Iliad she surges into battle to save her son, but abandons him (in fact, drops him as she flies through the air) when she herself is hurt (Ares does much the same thing). And she is the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she start the whole affair by offering Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her—which is Aphrodite's realm. Her domain may involve love, but it does not involve romance; rather, it tends more towards lust, the human irrational longing.

2006-08-28 12:26:49 · answer #8 · answered by veronica_babaru 2 · 0 0

Aphrodite, known as Venus in roman mythology

2006-08-28 12:22:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Aphrodite (also called Venus)

2006-09-01 03:55:12 · answer #10 · answered by antigone 4 · 1 0

Venus

2006-08-28 12:20:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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