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| Raw, physical passion; not a Greek god in her origin, near-Eastern origins; Cypris from island Cyprus, Cytherea from island Cythera; daughter of Zeus and Dione (feminine for of Zeus) by Homer; most beautiful of the goddesses married to the ugliest of the gods (Hephaestus); mistress of Ares to integrate this goddess into Indo-European pantheon; associated with geese and sparrows, elephants; Venus DeMilo: from island of Milos; Troy destroyed by love |
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| Dawn, rides chariot carrying dawn, had an affair with Ares, seen as the rival of Aphrodite |
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| feminine counterpart to Dios/Zeus; original Indo-European consort of Zeus; mother of Aphrodite according to some accounts |
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| Zeus wanted to punish Aphrodite for forcing so many gods to fall in love with mortals to their embarrassment, so he made her fall in love with this Trojan Prince; Aphrodite pretended to be a human princess and he willingly slept with her, later she revealed her true identity and he was afraid; he was drinking and gossiped about his affair with Aphrodite and so was struck by Zeus and was crippled (Hephaestus parallel); Aphrodite has son Aeneas (Trojan hero) |
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| son of Paphos, became next king of Cyprus, wife was jealous of attention this man gave goddess Aphrodite; she boasted her daughters were more beautiful than Aphrodite; made three of her daughters fall in love with foreigners and daughter Myrrha/Smyrna fell in love with her father (this man) |
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| Also known as Smyrna, fourth and youngest daughter of Cinyras, Aphrodite made her fall in love with her father; Cinyras pursued daughter with sword, she prayed to the gods and was turned into a myrrh tree (valuable perfume from sap in ancient times); gave birth to infant boy ADONIS |
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| son of Myrrha/smyrna; given to Persephone for safekeeping, she decided to keep him; Zeus appointed muse CALLIOPE to judge: 4 months with Persephone, 4 months with Aphrodite, 4 months with who he preferred; Aphrodite become sexually involved with him; he is killed by a wild boar and turns into anemone flower; a god of vegetation (spends at least 4 months of the year with Persephone, follows same vegetative cycle as Persephone herself, so dominated by women that he is destroyed when he tries to change being a vegetative god); FESTIVAL: early spring, women planted seeds and grow on roof, didn’t water plants during summer, leading the plants to wither and die (spring up and die just as fast) |
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| Artemis-esque huntress, participated in the Calydonian Boar Hunt; Aphrodite gave Milanion/Hippomenes golden apples to win the race for this woman's hand |
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| Cupid/Amor, desire, love, sexual passion, Classical Greek art Cupid is a youth with wings and crowns; Hellenistic period into Roman period: younger and younger to become the present-day representation of the infant Cupid |
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| Husband of Aphrodite: God of fire and metalworking (Beauty and the Beast Motif) |
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| Early Aphrodite; Sumerian |
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| Early Aphrodite; Assyrian/Babylonian |
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| Early Aphrodite; later, Bronze age |
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| Aphrodite from island Cyprus |
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| Aphrodite from island Cythera |
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| Lover of Eos, eas given eternal life but Eos forgot to ask for eternal youth, in later stories turned into a cicada, begging for death |
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| Also known as HIppomenes; participated in Calydonian Boar Hunt; prayed to Aphrodite for help with Atalanta, was given golden apples, forgot to thank Aphrodite after he won the hand of Atalanta and both were turned into lions |
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| Also known as Milanion; participated in Calydonian Boar Hunt; prayed to Aphrodite for help with Atalanta, was given golden apples, forgot to thank Aphrodite after he won the hand of Atalanta and both were turned into lions |
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| Son of Aphrodite by Trojan Prince Anchises, this man becomes a Trojan hero |
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| : first king of Cyprus; thought all living women were unworthy of him; created an ivory statue in the image of what he considered the perfect woman, even slept with the statue; performed sacrifices to Aphrodite so she turned the statue into a woman |
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| Cult center of Hephaestus |
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