Aphrodite: The Greek Goddess Of Love

Athena’s parents were among the most powerful and skilled of the gods. Athena’s mother was Metis, and her father was Zeus. Her siblings include Artemis, Aphrodite, the Muses, the Graces, Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Minos, Perseus, and Porus. Athena was Zeus’s favorite child, and she was the daughter of Zeus. She had sprung fully from Zeus’s head, fully grown and clothed in armor. Now, you might think “How did Athena come out of Zeus’s head?” Well, here is the answer to the question. Metis, being the goddess of crafty thought and prudence, she will give birth to a child more powerful than him and overthrow him. Zeus thought “This can’t happen!” Then he tricked Metis into a game of changing shapes. Halfway through playing the game, Metis forgot about her prudence and changed into a fly. Zeus opened his mouth and zip! He swallowed Metis. From then on, Metis guided him in Zeus’s head. It happened that Metis was going to have a child, and she was making armor and making a splendid robe for her child. For a while, Zeus suffered pounding headaches, and Hephaestus, being skilled at the tools, split open his father’s skull. Athena jumped out of Zeus’s head, thunder roared, and the gods stood in awe. There was this one time that made Athena very mad, when she turned one of the weavers Arachne, into a spider after the mortal girl insulted Athena and the Olympian gods. One of Athena’s pupils, Arachne, was

Athena is the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Zeus had many children, and Athena’s siblings include: Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Dionysus. Athena was Zeus’ favorite child. She is also called Minerva, Athina, or Athene. The birth of Athena was how she got her name. When Zeus was once married to Metis, and when they got pregnant, Zeus was warned that a son born to Metis would overthrow him. So, scared at the loss of his power, Zeus swallowed the pregnant Metis. That was the end of Metis, but after a time, Zeus developed a horrible headache. He had to get his skull split open, and out sprang a fully grown Athena. That is why she became the Goddess of intelligence and wisdom. Athena never married or had children. She was a virgin goddess, and she always stayed that way because

Ares’ parents are Zeus and Hera. His sisters are Eileithyia and Hebe and his half brother and sisters are Athena, Aphrodite, Apollon, Artemis, Hermes, Dionysos and Hephaistos. Ares married the goddess of love and beauty, aphrodite, and had three children with her named Deimos, Phobos, and Harmonia. Ares also had countless mortal offspring and one monstrous offspring which was a dragon-serpent.

The earliest Greek myths are part of an oral tradition that begann in the Bronze Age. The plots and themes of the myths unfold gradually in the written literature of the archaic and classical periods. One myth that has been oriented around the world for many centuries is the legend of Aphrodite. The story of Aphrodite, the goddess who has a magical girdle that compels everyone to desire her, has been passed down through generations of people all over the world. In some of the tales, Aphrodite used her power carelessly and not for good. Her qualities can be found in almost any person today. Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess who is known for being careless, can be compared to the former

The treatment of women has always been different in different societies, cultures, and time periods. In the Odyssey, the treatment of the female gods is different than the treatment of mortal women because the gods are a powerful being, but the mortal women are property and owned by their husbands. If a women marries a man who she has more money then, they will live in her house, but he will be in charge of everything, including herself. In book 21 and book 3 show the power of the mortal women compared to the power of the goddesses. In the Odyssey, the mortal women are treated and used differently from the way that the goddesses are worshiped because of the gender and societal roles that each group of women are assigned.

In ancient Greece, women are not considered as great as men and cannot qualify as a hero. They usually rely on men and the heroes for help. Women are little helpers, such as Ariadne, or trouble makers such as Medea. They are not considered important because of the men by their side: Theseus and Jason in this case. But some women can be noted as great as or even greater than some male heroes. Take Atlanta for example. She proved faster than just about any man in a foot race. She does not want to get married so she is able to control her fate instead of just letting her father pick. Similarly, in The Odyssey Penelope does not want to marry any of her suitors because of her loyalty to Odysseus. She stalls her

The History.com Staff acknowldeges how Aphrodite was worshipped for love and beauty, so you can imagine all the overboldness that this goddess radiated. Aphrodite was not very well liked among the other gods due to her slight overconfidence (History.com Staff paragraph 9). The article “Aphrodite” mentions Aphrodite’s great beauty and how her husband Hephaestus is not the type of guy you'd think that she would marry. This gorgeous goddess was not well respected on Mount Olympus. She often got in fights with the favorite daughter of Zeus, Athena (“Aphrodite” 2). Aphrodite did not appear in many myths, but when she did she made a big deal. In most of the myths Aphrodite appeared in she usually tampered with something in the means of love, and this is explained in “Aphrodite”. “Whoever wears her magic girdle immediately becomes an object of love” (“Aphrodite” Paragraph 4). Here the passage explains how the goddess subjected many to her games of love. Dr. Lavazzo describes the myth of how Aphrodite was born and many more in his article “ Conception, complicated pregnancy, and labour of gods and heroes in Greek mythology”. Aphrodite caused trouble the day she was born when she arose on the island Cyprus (Lavazzo paragraph 2). From making mortals fall in love, to boasting to the other gods, Aphrodite impacted greek mythology

Antigone’s father/brother was king, therefore she was a princess of Thebes. Everyone in the city knew who Antigone was. She was Creon’s niece and his own son’s fiancee. The people of Thebes believed that Antigone and her siblings were cursed because of their family tragedy that lead their parents to kill themselves. The tragedy was that their parents were mother and son, unknowingly.

Helen was set to be the most beautiful women in the world, and she was the Queen of Sparta. Her husband King Menelaus was more involved with his brother Agamemnon ,who enjoys conquering land. Helen was soon put under a spell because Paris was promised by Aphrodite to be with any woman he desires. Not only did Helen find

Transitioning from the archaic period to the classical period there is a shift from the gods being the main characters of the plays, to being the overseeing forces that make events happen in humans lives. In Hippolytus and The Women of Trachis, Aphrodite and Zeus are seen as responsible for making sure humans meet their fate. Phoenician Women shows this concept in its purest form by solely having human characters and the gods being only conceptual. The characters in tragedies make sense of the terrible things that happen to them through the belief that the gods made it destined to happen. Without this rational, humans would have no way to justify such tragic events. For this reason, there was a necessary shift from the way gods were portrayed

The greek goddess Aphrodite is very similar to the greek goddess peitho aside from their immense beauty and attention from almost all men. The 2 goddesses are very similar to each other. This is evident with how similar their very goddess domains are. Aphrodite is the goddess love sex and beauty. And peitho is the goddess of persuasion and seduction. Both aphrodite and peitho are skilled seductresses and are crafty with how they get what they want. But they are also lover’s too although they do have some clear differences that I will go over later.

The ancient Greek civilization has been well-known throughout the world as having some of the most infamous gods with stories surrounding each of them. There are a multitude of gods, each with a distinct personality and a specific role to play in this ancient religion. Ares is the Greek god of war. He represents the most unfiltered and genuine aspects of war such as the violence, the anger, and the thirst for blood. He is, in fact, typically referred to as the polar opposite of Athena, who represents the intelligence and strategy necessary for war. Above all, Ares’s role as an Olympian, as a human deity, and as an impact in literature, was to symbolize a very unfavorable angle to conflict.

Phaedra is the wife of Theseus, given to him by Deucalion by order of Minos, the king of Crete. She is, however not his first wife according to Apollodorus. Theseus took his first wife from the Amazons who he attacked while adventuring with Heracles. Theseus kidnapped Hippolyte, who is also known by the names Antiope, and Melannipe, as well as her sisters. Hippolyte gives Theseus a son, named Hippolytus. (Apollodorus, p.91)

Demeter means “mother goddess” or “barley mother”, her Roman name was Ceres. Demeter was the greek goddess of corn, grain, and harvest and is linked to preserving and harvesting grains. “As the grain Goddess she also became the patron Goddess of millers and bakers.” (“Facts About Demeter the Greek Goddess”) “It was believed that Demeter made the crops grow each year; thus the first loaf of bread made from the annual harvest was offered to her. She was the goddess of the earth, of agriculture, and of fertility in general.” (“Greek Mythology: Demeter”) Demeter was basically the goddess of famine and hunger. Like most of the Greek gods, she represented a force of nature, which means she could bring either blessing or curse. It has been said Demeter taught the art of agriculture to Triptolemus, who then spread this knowledge to the rest of mankind. (“Greek Mythology: Demeter”) (“Facts About Demeter the Greek Goddess”) (“Goddess of Agriculture & Horticulture”)

Made from parian marble sculpted separately before being fixed with vertical legs, this piece of art is usually thought to portray Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of physical love and beauty. Venus de Milo is a statue of a naked woman with no arms, restoration experts have said that the statues arms and original base or plinth have been lost almost since the work arrived in Paris in 1820. It has been said that this was partly due to an error of identification because when the statue was originally reassembled, the other pieces that came of the left hand and arm were not believed to belong to it because of their overall rough appearance.This goddess is often shown with mystery, her attitude always tends to be unknown. However to this day, many experts are confident that these additional pieces were part of the original work of art despite the variation in the final product since it was often common to spend less time and effort to the parts believed to be less visible of a sculpture, Many sculpture reconstruction experts guess that the separately carved right arm of the Venus de Milo laid across her torso with her right hand rested on her raised left knee, hence her clasping the clothing covering