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In mythology Venus was the goddess of love, sex and beauty. She was the Roman counterpart to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. However, Roman Venus had many abilities beyond Aphrodite. She was a goddess of victory, fertility, and even prostitution. This paper will inform you much about the goddess of beauty and love, about her descendants and loves, Her times of worship and coming to Rome and her many showings in art.
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Venus had two main divine lovers her husband Vulcan (Hephaistos) and Mars. There is a myth concerning Venus' and Mars' love affair and how Vulcan cunningly trapped them in bed with a net. Therefore, Vulcan and Venus had a loveless marriage and no children.Venus had several mortal lovers as well. The two most famous would be Anchises and Adonis, but she was also the lover of the Sicilian king Butes and mother to their son Eryx and Phaeton with whom she mothered Sandocus.who fathered Metamorphoses' Cinyras. …show more content…
Her cult among the Latins, however, seems to be immemorial, for she had apparently at least two ancient temples, one at Lavinium, the other in Ardea, at which festivals of the Latin cities were held. Hence, it was no long step to bring her to Rome, apparently from Ardea itself. But how she came to be identified with so important a goddess as Aphrodite remains a puzzle.
At the close of the Roman Republic, some Romans laid claim to Venus' favor and competed for it, such as Sulla Adopting the name Felix (Latin for lucky), and accrediting Venus Felix to his divine favor Pompey who dedicated, in 55 B.C, a temple to Venus Victrix - Venus of Victory Julius Caesar who claimed favor with Venus Victrix and Venus Genetrix and Hadrian who, in 139 CE, dedicated a temple to Venus and Roma Aeterna Eternal Rome making Venus the protective mother of the Roman
In mythology Venus was the goddess of love, sex and beauty. She was the Roman counterpart to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. However, Roman Venus had many abilities beyond Aphrodite. She was a goddess of victory, fertility, and even prostitution. This paper will inform you much about the goddess of beauty and love, about her descendants and loves, Her times of worship and coming to Rome and her many showings in art.
Family
Venus had two main divine lovers her husband Vulcan (Hephaistos) and Mars. There is a myth concerning Venus' and Mars' love affair and how Vulcan cunningly trapped them in bed with a net. Therefore, Vulcan and Venus had a loveless marriage and no children.Venus had several mortal lovers as well. The two most famous would be Anchises and Adonis, but she was also the lover of the Sicilian king Butes and mother to their son Eryx and Phaeton with whom she mothered Sandocus.who fathered Metamorphoses' Cinyras. …show more content…
Her cult among the Latins, however, seems to be immemorial, for she had apparently at least two ancient temples, one at Lavinium, the other in Ardea, at which festivals of the Latin cities were held. Hence, it was no long step to bring her to Rome, apparently from Ardea itself. But how she came to be identified with so important a goddess as Aphrodite remains a puzzle.
At the close of the Roman Republic, some Romans laid claim to Venus' favor and competed for it, such as Sulla Adopting the name Felix (Latin for lucky), and accrediting Venus Felix to his divine favor Pompey who dedicated, in 55 B.C, a temple to Venus Victrix - Venus of Victory Julius Caesar who claimed favor with Venus Victrix and Venus Genetrix and Hadrian who, in 139 CE, dedicated a temple to Venus and Roma Aeterna Eternal Rome making Venus the protective mother of the Roman