Goddess of Love
Picture:
Age: Ageless
Gender: Female
Personality: She is very flirty and isn't into relationships for very long. She adores love, she adores making love and breaking hearts. She will switch with many partners (men and women). She can have a temper but is usually kind- just awfully flirty.
Likes:
♥ Dionysus
♥Love
♥Causing Heartbreak
♥Gambling
♥The color pink
♥Drinking
Dislikes:
✘ Dionysus in any kind of trouble
✘Not getting her way
✘Disrespect
✘Hangovers
✘Foolishness
Biography: Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near her chief center of worship, Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, which is why she is sometimes called "Cyprian", especially in the poetic works of Sappho. However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Cythera, hence another of her names, "Cytherea". Cythera was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.
In the most famous version of her myth, her birth was the consequence of a castration: Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea. The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite (hence her name, meaning "foam-arisen"), while the Erinyes (furies), and the Meliae emerged from the drops of his blood. Hesiod states that the genitals "were carried over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew." The girl, Aphrodite, floated ashore on a scallop shell. This iconic representation of Aphrodite as a mature "Venus rising from the sea" (Venus Anadyomene) was made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
Petra tou Romiou ("The rock of the Greek"), Aphrodite's legendary birthplace in Paphos, Cyprus.
In another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona. Aphrodite herself was sometimes also referred to as "Dione". "Dione" seems to be a feminine form of "Dios", "of Zeus", the genitive form case of Zeus, and could be taken to mean simply "(she) that belongs to Zeus" in a generic sense. Aphrodite might, then, be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whom Homer relocated to Olympus.
Aphrodite is consistently portrayed, in every image and story, as having had no childhood, and instead being born as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult. She is often depicted nude. In many of the later myths, she is portrayed as vain, ill-tempered, and easily offended. Although she is married—she is one of the few gods in the Greek Pantheon who is—she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.
According to one version of Aphrodite's story, because of her immense beauty Zeus fears that the other gods will become violent with each other in their rivalry to possess her. To forestall this, he forces her to marry Hephaestus, the dour, humorless god of smithing. In another version of the story, his mother, Hera casts him off Olympus, deeming him too ugly and deformed to inhabit the home of the gods. His revenge is to trap his mother in a magic throne. In return for her release, he demands to be given Aphrodite's hand in marriage.
Hephaestus is overjoyed to be married to the goddess of beauty, and forges her beautiful jewelry, including the cestus, a girdle that makes her even more irresistible to men. Her unhappiness with her marriage causes Aphrodite to seek other male companionship, most often Ares, but also sometimes Adonis.
Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities, but in the Odyssey, she is portrayed as preferring Ares, the volatile god of war, because she is attracted to his violent nature.
She had been the lover of the Trojan Anchises, and mother of his son Aeneas. Later, during the war, she saves Aeneas from Diomedes, who wounds her.
((Buuuuuuut here, She is engaged to Dionysus and the Blacksmith...doesn't exist.))
Abilities:
Love's Bow- A bow conjured by a pale pink light. It shoots pink energy.
Love/hate Aura- She has the ability to create the feel of love or hate around her. It can influence but not completely control someone's mood.
Memories Crannies- If a couple is fighting, she has the power to make them feel their love and remember memories of happiness. Thus causing the fight to end sooner- This ability can also do the opposite. She can make them feel dislike and give bad memories of the relationship, thus possibly prolonging the fight and causing a break up.
Archery- She is a skilled archer, Very skilled.
Weaknesses: Darkness, Close ranged attacks
Strengths: Love, Archery, Persuasion.
Extra?:
Primadonna Girl
Symbols:
Dolphin
Rose
Scallop Shell
Myrtle
Dove
Sparrow
Girdle
Mirror
and Swan
