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Aphrodite Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike" was a cult epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, in which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares. [1] This representation was found in Sparta and Taras (modern Taranto).
Armed Aphrodite. (NAMA 262) Armed Aphrodite ( Greek: Ένοπλη Αφροδίτη) is a first-century AD Roman marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite Areia, or the war-like aspect of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who was more commonly worshipped as a goddess of beauty and love. It is modelled after a lost Greek original of the fourth century BC ...
In the Trojan War, Aphrodite, protector of Troy, persuades Ares to take the Trojans' side. The Trojans lose, while Ares' sister Athena helps the Greeks to victory. Most famously, when the craftsman-god Hephaestus discovers his wife Aphrodite is having an affair with Ares, he traps the lovers in a net and exposes them to the ridicule of the ...
Alectryon (from Ancient Greek: ἀλεκτρυών, Alektruṓn pronounced [alektryɔ̌ːn], literally meaning "rooster") in Greek mythology, was a young soldier who was assigned by Ares, the god of war, to guard the outside of his bedroom door while the god took part in a love affair with the love goddess Aphrodite. Alectryon however failed at ...
Ancient Greece portal. Myths portal. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [2] They were called Olympians because ...
Maahes, lion-headed god of war. Menhit, goddess of war, "she who massacres". Montu, falcon -headed god of war, valor, and the Sun. Neith, goddess of war, hunting, and wisdom. Pakhet, goddess of war. Satis, deification of the floods of the Nile River and an early war, hunting, and fertility goddess.
According to Apollodorus, a jealous Aphrodite cursed Eos, the goddess of dawn, to be perpetually in love and have insatiable sexual desire because Eos once had lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, the god of war. [194] Marble statue of Aphrodite Rhithymnia, mid-2nd century AD, Archaeological Museum of Rethymno, Crete.
In God of War (2005), Aphrodite helped Kratos by empowering the head of the slain Medusa and giving it to Kratos as a magical weapon. [49] In God of War III, indifferent to Kratos' war against Olympus, she offered advice regarding the architect Daedalus. After seducing Kratos, Aphrodite directed him to her estranged husband.