Aphrodite & Eros by Barbara Breitenberger

Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens.

The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. Aphrodítē Attic Greek pronunciation:, Koine Greek:, Modern Greek: ) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. The Titans, the Hecatoncheires, the Cyclopes, The Meliae, the Erinyes, the Giants (as daughter of Uranus) orĪeacus, Angelos, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Pandia, Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, the Graces, the Horae, the Litae, the Muses, the Moirai (as daughter of Zeus)Įros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Pothos, Anteros, Himeros, Hermaphroditus, Rhodos, Eryx, Peitho, The Graces, Priapus, AeneasĪphrodite ( / ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː/ ( listen) AF-rə- DY-tee Greek: Ἀφροδίτη, translit. Rose, seashell, pearl, mirror, girdle, anemone, lettuce, narcissus The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy (torso and thighs) with restored head, arms, legs and drapery supporĭolphin, sparrow, dove, swan, hare, goose, bee, fish, butterfly

Aphrodite & Eros by Barbara Breitenberger