Is there any difference between Aphrodite and Venus?

Question

Besides the fact that the former was used by the Greeks and the later by the Romans is there any significance to different names.

Answer 1

If you are looking at Greek and Roman literature they are the same. When Roman writers retell Greek myths, they simply rename Aphrodite Venus.

Someone above mentioned that the star was named for Venus. Actually that was copied from the Greeks as well who called the planet Aster Aphrodision (the star of Aphrodite).

The major difference however was in ancient religion. The Roman cults and festivals of Venus were very different from the Greek ones dedicated to Aphrodite.
The Roman festival known as the Veneria was a spring-time celebration, since the original Roman goddess Venus was a spring fertility goddess.

There were a few indigenous Roman myths about the goddess Venus, such as when she saved the early city from an invading army by causing a hot-water spring to burst forth before the gates.

The Roman noble house of the Julii also claimed to be descended from her.

Answer 2

Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty and fertility, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

Venus is Roman & Aphrodite is Greek

Answer 3

According to Hesiod, Aphrodite 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.

Venus is the daughter of Jupiter, and some of her lovers include Mars and Vulcan, modeled on the affairs of Aphrodite. The Roman goddess of love and beauty, but originally a vegetation goddess and patroness of gardens and vineyards.

Answer 4

The only difference is names of relatives. Unless you want to take into account that a statue of Venus survived Christian destruction and is now in the Louvre, sans arms. I believe all of the large Aphrodite statues were destroyed.

Answer 5

One has a Planet named after her, otherwise they are each other's counterpart. Of course Rome stole Aphrodite from the Greeks.