Can you imagine being so beautiful and alluring that you started a war between gods and a war between mortals all fighting and dying for you? Aphrodite is the greek god of beauty, lust, and pleasure and is said to be the perfect woman. She is beautiful in every way and her looks are known to seduce any man she wished to. Her perfection is both a blessing and a curse however, wars were fought and won over Aphrodite's love and she was eventually forced to be married just to put an end to the fighting she causes between both gods and mortals. Aphrodite was a major part of greek history, she was part of the original and powerful greek pantheon and was one of the Olympian gods that resided upon Mount Olympus in the time of the gods. She was an ancient,
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The first and most widely followed myth is that when Gaea conspired with her son Cronus to depose Ouranos (Uranus) from his rule for his imprisoning of the Titan children, Cronus castrated his father and cast aside his genitals into the sea. From the sea a white foam arose and from the foam came Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty. She has a second myth regarding her creation that pits Zeus as her father alongside Dione and this would make all of Zeus' many children her sisters and brothers meaning she has a rather large family tree as Zeus had up to 92 children should all the myths be believed. The two stories of her creation tend to be widely disputed as are many of the stories told in greek mythology, however, what can not be disputed was the major impact and effect Aphrodite played in the world, she was a focal piece for many greek myths and set a lot of events in motion that had everlasting and far-reaching effects that can be seen in almost every greek story …show more content…
She is said to have a gorgeous face and body. She is eternally young and as such eternally beautiful. She has several good and bad traits that affect her actions and how she enforces her rule as a goddess. She was considered as a joyful and helpful god, especially because she was the goddess of love, so she brought joy and love to mortals in an attempt to make life better for them. However this is where her good traits end, she had many bad personality traits that make her a dangerous god and a force to be reckoned with. She was treacherous and unfaithful, she didn’t love her husband Hephaestus, so she sought out with Ares and multiple other gods and consorted with them, even having children by them while still in marriage. She was malicious as well, in the story of, “Aphrodite and Psyche” Aphrodite wanted Eros to make Psyche love the ugliest women in the world which is alike to how she was forced to marry Hephaestus, a god known for being deformed and unsightly. Aphrodite was a jealous goddess and didn’t want any mortal to be more beautiful than her. For an example, she was jealous of Psyche when mortals refused to follow Aphrodite and instead followed Psyche because of her beauty. She used her powers to constantly send gods into the arms of mortals, especially Zeus, which made her an enemy of Hera, one of Zeus' wives. Her characteristics and traits show
The first and most widely followed myth is that when Gaea conspired with her son Cronus to depose Ouranos (Uranus) from his rule for his imprisoning of the Titan children, Cronus castrated his father and cast aside his genitals into the sea. From the sea a white foam arose and from the foam came Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty. She has a second myth regarding her creation that pits Zeus as her father alongside Dione and this would make all of Zeus' many children her sisters and brothers meaning she has a rather large family tree as Zeus had up to 92 children should all the myths be believed. The two stories of her creation tend to be widely disputed as are many of the stories told in greek mythology, however, what can not be disputed was the major impact and effect Aphrodite played in the world, she was a focal piece for many greek myths and set a lot of events in motion that had everlasting and far-reaching effects that can be seen in almost every greek story …show more content…
She is said to have a gorgeous face and body. She is eternally young and as such eternally beautiful. She has several good and bad traits that affect her actions and how she enforces her rule as a goddess. She was considered as a joyful and helpful god, especially because she was the goddess of love, so she brought joy and love to mortals in an attempt to make life better for them. However this is where her good traits end, she had many bad personality traits that make her a dangerous god and a force to be reckoned with. She was treacherous and unfaithful, she didn’t love her husband Hephaestus, so she sought out with Ares and multiple other gods and consorted with them, even having children by them while still in marriage. She was malicious as well, in the story of, “Aphrodite and Psyche” Aphrodite wanted Eros to make Psyche love the ugliest women in the world which is alike to how she was forced to marry Hephaestus, a god known for being deformed and unsightly. Aphrodite was a jealous goddess and didn’t want any mortal to be more beautiful than her. For an example, she was jealous of Psyche when mortals refused to follow Aphrodite and instead followed Psyche because of her beauty. She used her powers to constantly send gods into the arms of mortals, especially Zeus, which made her an enemy of Hera, one of Zeus' wives. Her characteristics and traits show