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Aphrodite/ Venus

Aphrodite/ Venus. Unit 1: Goddess Project Professor Jane A. Jones Women in Literature 2380 September 13 th , 2007 Krystal Cook. Goddess of Love, beauty and Fertility.

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Aphrodite/ Venus

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  1. Aphrodite/ Venus Unit 1: Goddess Project Professor Jane A. Jones Women in Literature 2380 September 13th, 2007 Krystal Cook

  2. Goddess of Love, beauty and Fertility

  3. was originally a great fertility goddess. She became the Greek goddess of both carnal and ideal love. She had a domain that included the innermost feelings of the heart and the source of human passion. She could charm everyone, even the gods. Aphrodite

  4. Appearance: Gorgeous, perfect, eternally young woman with a beautiful body. Aphrodite and Eros

  5. Aphrodite's Symbol or Attribute: Her Girdle, which has magical powers to compel love. Strengths: Potent sexual attractiveness, dazzling beauty. Aphrodite's Husband: Hephaestus, the lame smith-god. Also associated with Ares, god of War. Children: Eros, a Cupid-like figure.

  6. When Kronos had cut off his father’s members, he tossed them into the sea. The immortal flesh eventually spread into a circle of white foam... from this foam, was created. Her name literally means foam-born. Aphrodite

  7. Basic Story: Aphrodite rises from the foam of the waves of the sea, enchanting anyone who sees her and inciting feelings of love and lust wherever she goes. She is a contender in the story of the Golden Apples, when Paris chooses her as the fairest of the three goddesses (the others were Hera and Athena) and Aphrodite decides to "reward" him for giving her the Golden Apple (the prototype of most modern awards) by giving him the love of Helen of Troy, something of a mixed blessing that led to the Trojan War.

  8. …Hermes answered that he would suffer thrice the number of bonds if only he could share the bed of Aphrodite the Golden (Odyssey, book 8, line 342) Hermaphrodite, son of Aphrodite and Hermes, is both male and female.

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  10. "Aphrodite." Encyclopedia Mythicafrom Encyclopedia Mythica Online.<http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aphrodite.html> [Accessed August 20, 2007]. Blackwell, Dr. Christopher, and Amy Hackney Blackwell. Mythology for Dummies. New York, NY: Hungry Minds, 2002. Botticelli, Sandro. The Birth of Venus 1485 <http://www.answers.com/topic/aphrodite> Plurabelle, Anna Livia. Book of the Goddess, 2002 Anna LiviaPlurabelle, www. sacred-texts.com [Accessed September 11, 2007] Walker, Barbara G. Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000. "Greek Mythology: Aphrodite." MythWeb. 25 August 2007. Fleet Gazelle. San Francisco, California. 01 Sep 2007 <http://www.mythweb.com/gods/Aphrodite.html>. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Aphrodite.html Aphrodite, "Yahoo Image Search." Yahoo! . 2007. 11 Sep 2007 <6) http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=aphrodite&fr=yfp-t-471&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&js=1>. Bibliography

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