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[[Image:Aphrodite.jpg|thumb|Aphrodite and the twin ichthyocentaurs, Zeugma, mosaic]] ...works of art. The mosaic above (Z10.1) from Zeugma, depicting the birth of Aphrodite, is inscribed with the names of the two who are lifting the goddess' cockle

'''Hermaphroditos''' (or ''Hermaphroditus'') is a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality. ...dition in Ovid (Met. iv. 285, &c.), Hermaphroditos was a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, and consequently a great-grandson of Atlas, whence he is called Atlantiade

Berossus, a historian, related Anahit with Aphrodite whereas medieval Armenian scribes identify her with Artemis. According to S

...children of [[Gaia]] (Earth) fertilised by the blood of castrated Ouranos (Aphrodite arose from the same origins, yet no myth connected her with the Gigantes).

...Deity). During the Hellenistic period, Astghik was coupled with the Greek Aphrodite and the Mesopotamian Ishtar.

...oes not look at her throughout the entire trip back, and her striving with Aphrodite to be the lover of Adonis.

...ns, [[Aphrodite]], who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called ''Aphrodite Urania'' the 'eldest of the Fates' according geographer Pausanias (x.24.4). ...le, only two Fates are worshipped, those of Birth and Death; and at Athens Aphrodite Urania is called the eldest of the three.

...e Buddhist goddess of love and sex, corresponding to the Western goddesses Aphrodite and Venus. She is depicted as a voluptuous and seductive nude sixteen year

...into the sea, but he was caught up and carried safely away by the goddess Aphrodite. It is said that after a ship successfully sailed by the Sirens, they threw

...Olympus on the back of a mule. Hephaestus released Hera after being given Aphrodite as wife. Angry with the Trojan prince Paris for preferring Aphrodite, goddess of love, to herself, Hera aided the Greeks in the Trojan War and w

...at she was caught in one of Aphrodite's temples making love to Poseidon by Aphrodite herself. She was cursed by being turned from a beautiful woman to an ugly w

...a was sometimes represented with the same attributes as Lachesis, and that Aphrodite Urania at Athens, according to an inscription on a Hermes-pillar, was calle ...Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called ''Aphrodite Urania'' the 'eldest of the Fates' according to Pausanias Pausanias (x.24.4

...and [[Meliae]] were produced. From the member that was cast into the sea, Aphrodite later emerged. For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons ''

...that Delos was, as legend states, a floating island. One legend says that Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus and Dione

...into the sea, but he was caught up and carried safely away by the goddess Aphrodite.

...zed Atargatis under the name Derketo, where she was often conflated with [[Aphrodite]].