Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and gave birth to the Earth, the ...

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While Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of the deities Zeus and Dione, Hesiod tells of her marine birth from the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos. The oil jar at right elegantly ...

Many modern words, such as aphrodisiac, are derived from Aphrodite’s name, which itself comes from the Greek word for foam: “aphros.” Both heads reflect similar stylistic qualities to the ...

King Willem-Alexander shared how proud he and Queen Máxima were to be the first Dutch royals to pay an official visit to Cyprus which he said was where” the goddess Aphrodite was born from the ...

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