Beauty Goddesses . . 𖣂︭ } 🐸
Aphrodite, perhaps the best-known Greek goddess of beauty, is thought to be the epitome of physical beauty, love, fertility, and pleasure. There are many legends surrounding her birth but the most popular one suggests that she was born out of sea foam in a sea shell like a pearl in an oyster shell. This iconic scene is illustrated in Sandro Botticelli’s, The Birth of Venus. The mother of Eros (Cupid), Aphrodite, is associated with symbols that include doves, roses, sparrows, myrtles and swans. The term "aphrodisiac" has also been directly derived from her name.
Despite the legend of her stunning beauty, however, nothing good came out of stories surrounding the myth of Aphrodite. She is known to have started the Trojan War by promising, Helen of Troy, the most beautiful mortal in the world, to Paris in exchange for the title of the 🌱“Fairest Goddess of the Land.” She was also involved in ill-treating her son Eros’s mortal lover Psyche and many other scandals up on Mount Olympus.
Aphrodite, perhaps the best-known Greek goddess of beauty, is thought to be the epitome of physical beauty, love, fertility, and pleasure. There are many legends surrounding her birth but the most popular one suggests that she was born out of sea foam in a sea shell like a pearl in an oyster shell. This iconic scene is illustrated in Sandro Botticelli’s, The Birth of Venus. The mother of Eros (Cupid), Aphrodite, is associated with symbols that include doves, roses, sparrows, myrtles and swans. The term "aphrodisiac" has also been directly derived from her name.
Despite the legend of her stunning beauty, however, nothing good came out of stories surrounding the myth of Aphrodite. She is known to have started the Trojan War by promising, Helen of Troy, the most beautiful mortal in the world, to Paris in exchange for the title of the 🌱“Fairest Goddess of the Land.” She was also involved in ill-treating her son Eros’s mortal lover Psyche and many other scandals up on Mount Olympus.