Aphrodite Facts – 50 Fun Facts About Aphrodite

Facts About Aphrodite

Aphrodite symbols are Dove, Sparrow, Girdle, Mirror, Swan, Dolphin, Rose, Scallop Shell, and Myrtle.

Aphrodite children are the Graces, Priapus, Aeneas and Tyche, Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Pothos Anteros, Himeros, Hermaphroditos, Rhode, Eryx, Peitho, and Eunomia

Eros – god of love is Aphrodite’s son

Aphrodite’s son Eros was often depicted carrying a hare, as a symbol of unquenchable desire.

Aphrodite offered Eros a unique ball as a gift if he would do her bidding. She said that it was as good as any gift he could get from Hephaestus

Her son Himeros is regarded as the god of sexual desires while her other son Potthos has been deemed as the god of longing and yearning. Graces or the Charites has been conceived by her from her union with Dionysus – the god of wine

In fact she was one of the 12 Olympian gods who resided on the summit of Mount Olympus

Her beauty was a curse and many gods believed that rivalry would precipitate a war between the gods.

Aphrodite was married by her father to Hephaestus because his unsightliness and deformity deemed that he was not a threat

It was also one of the reasons that despite having a husband like Hephaestus Aphrodite had many lovers.

Aphrodite to Zeus: An Encyclopedia of Greek & Roman Mythology (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology)
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