Greek goddess of beauty and love, identified by the Romans with → Venus. Attempts to derive her name from the Greek word aphros=foam, date back to antiquity On this interpretation, the goddess is ‘she who is born of the foam’; or, as...

APHRODITE. Aphrodite's name is closely related to ideas of sex, love, pleasure, and beauty. To evaluate the relevance of this minimal definition in the goddess's own cultural context, it is necessary to investigate both Greek literature...

Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη; Latin: Venus) (pronounced /ˌæfrəˈdaɪti/; Ancient Greek: IPA: [apʰɾoˈdiːtɛː], Modern Greek: [afɾoˈðiti]) is the classical Greek goddess of love, lust, and beauty. She was also called Kypris and Cytherea...

Maybe it didn’t take place on February 14th, but I can think of one special occasion when Eve had Adam eating out of her hand. This year, why not continue the tradition (with hopefully somewhat less calamitous results)? While there’s something to be said for...

Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.State lawyers will withdraw the civil lawsuit when the two-year-old trial...

The Italian Culture Ministry and the J. Paul Getty Museum have reached an agreement for the return of 40 artifacts to Italy _ including a prized statue of the goddess Aphrodite.It was the latest victory in Italy's efforts to recover antiquities it says were looted...

The J. Paul Getty Museum on Monday settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claims were illegally spirited out of the country.Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis and museum director Michael Brand said they had "reached an...

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Examines the Greek Goddess of romance, Aphrodite. Explores her place in Greek myth. Compares her to her Roman counterpart, Venus.