![]() ![]() ![]() The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. ![]() Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. Hephaestus (divorced), and liaisons with Ares, Anchises, Adonis and othersĮros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Pothos, Anteros, Himeros, Hermaphroditus, Rhodos, Eryx, Peitho, The Graces, Beroe, Golgos, Priapus, AeneasĪphrodite ( / ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː/ ⓘ AF-rə- DY-tee) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Rose, seashell, pearl, mirror, girdle, anemone, lettuce, narcissus The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy (torso and thighs) with restored head, arms, legs and drapery supportĭolphin, sparrow, dove, swan, hare, goose, bee, fish, butterfly ![]()
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