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A Roman copy of a statue of Aphrodite Areia found in Epidaurus, with the original created by the Polykleitos school.. 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]
Aphrodite is consistently portrayed as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult, having had no childhood. [109] She is often depicted nude. [110] In the Iliad, Aphrodite is the apparently unmarried consort of Ares, the god of war, [111] and the wife of Hephaestus is a different goddess named Charis. [112]
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.
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 ...
Though married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite's affair through Helios, the all-seeing Sun, and planned a trap during one of their trysts. While Aphrodite and Ares lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be ...
t. e. The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War, and in later versions to the foundation of Rome. [1] Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
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.
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 ...