aphrodite

     

Aphroite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη; Latin: Venus) (pronounced /ˌæfrəˈdaɪti/; Ancient Greek: IPA: [apʰɾoˈdiːtɛː], Modern Greek: [afɾoˈðiti]) is the classical Greek goddess of love, lust, beauty, and sexual reproduction. She was also called Kypris and Cytherea after the two places, Cyprus and Cythera, which claimed her birth. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. Myrtle, dove, sparrow, and swan are sacred to her.

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  • Alexandra Tydings plays this totally cool Greek love goddess, created by the foam of the sea, on "Xena" & "Hercules"
  • Though depicted with the head of a cow, Hathor is a goddess of beauty equated with this Greek goddess
  • This Greek goddess of love & beauty had a girdle that made everyone love her
  • You could say this love goddess' eye was on the sparrow because the sparrow was sacred to her
  • Dione, who was either a nymph or a Titan, gave birth to this Greek goddess of love & beauty
  • Etymologically, the name of this Greek goddess may mean "foam-risen"
  • Appropriately, Leander's beloved lass, Hero, was a high priestess for this Greek goddess of love
  • Plato split her into 2 goddesses: one of pure love & one of common love
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The blue morpho's name comes from "morpho", meaning "shapely", one of the epithets of this Greek goddess of love
  • This mighty Greek love goddess is the mother of Eros
  • In Greek myth Eros was the son of this love & beauty goddess by any of several godly fathers
  • Anchises bragged about romancing this Greek love goddess, so Zeus struck him with lightning
  • Don't be disarmed by the fact that this goddess was the daughter of Zeus & Dione
  • Plato said this Greek love goddess was actually 2 individuals: Urania & Pandemos
  • Melanion had to ask for help from this Greek love goddess on how to win Atalanta's hand
  • This goddess was "mighty" fertile, bearing Harmonia, Aeneas & Eros, among others
  • She's the mother of Eros
  • The name of this Greek goddess means "foam born", which some stories say she was
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  • A courtesan of Athens is said to have been the model for Praxiteles' statue of this Greek goddess
  • The judgment of Paris was fixed; this Greek goddess won the title by promising to give him Helen

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