Interesting Facts About Aphrodite

15. Aphrodite was a great beauty and was called the goddess of love and romance. She had very appealing physical features, and she was portrayed as a flawless beauty with eternal youth in the early Greek myths.

14. Born from the foam from the severed genitals of Uranus or the more normal way, if born from a couple. Another version has her hatched from an egg.

13. When she walks on grass the flowers spring up. She is also known as the goddesses of beauty and desire. She is known to be the most beautiful goddess in Olympia.

12. Aphrodite is known as the Greek Goddess (Roman Venus) of love, desire, beauty, fertility, the sea, and vegetation. It is said that when Cronus was castrated by Uranus, and his part was thrown into the sea, Aphrodite was thus born and arose on a large shell, which was then carried to land, thus her name being translated “foam-risen”. The sea nymphs dressed her and adorned her with flowers and gold.

11. When the Trojan prince Paris was asked to judge which of three Olympian goddesses was the most beautiful, he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Athena. The latter two had hoped to bribe him with power and victory in battle, but Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.

10. The Greeks generally considered Aphrodite a dangerous and spiteful goddess, in spite of her great beauty. This was a reflection of the way they looked at love between men and women: sometimes bringing great happiness, but often leading to sorrow or even tragedy. In Greek eyes, friendship between members of the same sex was considered more lasting and reliable than romantic love between men and women.

9. Aphrodite was said to have the girdle, which carried magical powers that was responsible for people falling in love. Aphrodite was also called Cythera (lady of Cythera) and Cyprus (lady of Cyprus) based on the two locations where she is said to be born. According to the roman mythology Aphrodite was called Venus.

8. Aphrodite was beautiful and she was kind, but sometimes she wanted revenge. Liked by all the gods and mortals, Aphrodite’s beauty usually made others jealous.

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7. The most famous legend of Aphrodite, is the beginning of the Trojan War. Aphrodite was among two other goddess, Hera and Athena, who were invited to the wedding of King Peleus and his sea nymph Thetis. Eris the goddess of discord was so outraged that she was not invited, so she threw a golden apple labeled “to the fairest” in the center of the floor. All three goddess knew that they were the fairest, and fought over it. Since Zeus would not choose the fairest, the goddess’s looked upon Paris, the Prince of Troy, to make the award. Each goddess offered poor Paris a bribe for them to be the chosen one. Thus the bribe he could not turn down was that of Aphrodite, as she offered him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy. Helen however was the wife of the Greek king Menelaus, so Paris’s abduction of Helen led to the Trojan War.

6. It is interesting to note that in no legend does Aphrodite show the slightest respect or friendship for another woman. The goddesses on Olympus all despised her, and mortal women tended to fear her. In spite of her great beauty, the goddess of romantic love was not really loved by anyone, because underneath her beauty was a mean-spirited, jealous, and vain person who caused endless misery. She was, in the end, the goddess who caused the greatest of Greek tragedies: The Trojan War.

5. Many gods avoided marrying Aphrodite because of her beauty which may lead to war between the Olympians. So to avoid any war, Zeus married off Aphrodite to Hephaestus because he was lame. She was unhappy with the marriage and found comfort with other gods like the god of war, Ares.

4. She had one son named Eros (also known as Cupid.)

3. She would marry Hephaestus, the black smith who forged many of the Godly weapons you have seen within these amazing myths and legends. However, the weird thing about all of this is the fact they were brother and sister.

2. Aphrodite helped people who were unlucky with love. She turned beautiful statues into beautiful mortal women. She also made people meet their needs so people would notice them.

1. The birds which are sacred according to the goddess of love are the myrtles, swans, sparrows and doves.

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