are there any cool facts i should know about aphrodite the greek goddess?

Question

well im doing a project on her, so i was wondering...

i know she is the goddess of love, and zues her father is the father of beauty

Answer 1

I hear she was kinda a sloot.

Answer 2

Among the many pretty things Aphrodite liked, roses and daisies stand out in my mind.

She is also responsible for the term "beauty sleep." In the story of Cupid and Psyche, she sends Psyche to the underworld (in the hopes Psyche won't ever leave) to ask Persephone to give Aphrodite some of her beauty. Persephone agrees, and places it in a box. Psyche is tempted to open the box, and she falls asleep. (Cupid - who was Psyche's husband - decides enough is enough, literally wipes the sleep from her eyes and makes an appeal to Zeus, who makes Psyche a goddess. This makes her acceptable to Aphrodite, and they make up.)

Answer 3

"In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione. " I cited this from the site I'm listing in sources and I read it in a Mythology book, reading something like that defenitely sticks with you...

Answer 4

Haha yeah. This is true to Greek mythology... the titan called Uranus was having sex with the earth titan a lot and she would get pregnant but Uranus would just shove the kids back inside her. The earth titan had one of her kids chop his balls off and the kid chucked them in the ocean. The balls got some kinda foam around them while floating in the ocean. Then Aphrodite was born from the foamy severed testicles of Uranus.

Answer 5

Another note of her late affiliation as an Olympian barely tolerated, always glad to escape, is that in the Iliad she is a departmental goddess, her sphere is that of one human passion. In the Homeric Hymn she is of far wider import. The poet tells how, when she was seeking the shepherd Anchises, "To many fountained Ida she came, mother of wild beasts, and made straight for the steading through the mountain, while behind her came fawning the beasts, grey wolves and lions fiery-eyed and bears and swift pards, insatiate pursuers of the roe-deer. Glad was she at the sight of them and sent desire into their breasts, and they went coupling two by two in the shadowy dells." She is here the impulse of life to all things on the wide earth, a veritable Lady-of-the-Wild-Things. Yes, and she is Lady, too, of the upper air as well as of sea and land. On a vase-painting in the British Museum, a design of marvellous beauty, we see her seated sedately on a great swan sailing through the upper air.

Answer 6

One of the most interesting stories about aphrodite explains her part in starting the Trojan War. It has been the subject of a number of famous paintings with the title "The Judgment of Paris" - by Rubens, Titian and others. You can read the story and see one of the paintings here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris

Answer 7

Okay, since it probably is a school project, you most likely won't be able to use this one, but one way in which people worshipped Aphrodite was to have intercourse with the preistesses at her temples.

Answer 8

wow those adult men are real jerks. ill grant you with some ideas off the right of my head. although artemis, god of the search, and aphrodite goddes of elegance are both females. they fluctuate in a lot of approaches for one artemis hates adult men she unearths them untrustworthy and makes the ladies of her team swear adverse to them. aphrodite although craves the interest of adult men and hell who might want to say no to a goddess. a lot less a goddess of elegance. good success guy.

Answer 9

Zeus is not Aphrodite's father, where you got that. I dunno.
Anyway.

So, In the beginning...
Oh you know what, just check out what I wrote about her on my website.
http://www.sacredhearth.com/articles/aphrodite

Answer 10

http://www.answers.com/topic/aphrodite?method=22

Answer 11

Her Girdle was supposed to have magical powers to compel love.