![]() ![]() ![]() The beautiful princess of the Triballoi tribe of Thrace, Princess Polyphonte. So she cursed her with an unquenchable lust for young men as a punishment for sleeping with Ares. She had a one night stand with Aphrodite's lover Ares the god of war. The Argonauts slept with the Lemnian women allowing them to re-populate their land.Įos the goddess of dawn cause the Goddess Aphrodite to get jealous. Aphrodite forgave them and she lured Jason alongside with the Argonauts to Lemnos. The Lemnian women regretted their action and ask Goddess Aphrodite to forgive their sin and they sacrificed thousands of pigeon to Aphrodite. After the mass masscre, lemnian woman soon lived on their own but sadly the population is decreasing and many women died and since the death of Lemnian men the land of Lemnos has been filled with bankcruptcy and misfortunes. They wreaked havoc and killed all the Lemnian men including the male babies. Lemnian men refused to sleep with them and took Thracian woman as their bride. Goddess Aphrodite cursed the Lemnian women with a horrible, disgusting and smelly stench on their vagina. The Lemnian women rejected goddess Aphrodite and neglcted her worship. ![]() Aphrodite's cursed was therefore fulfilled when Aphrodite's handsome step-brother, Apollo accidently killed Hyacinthus with a frisbee. Aphrodite took her criticism as an insult and cursed her that she will fall in love with a mortal men and the child that she bore will be killed by the hands of a god. One of the Muses, Clio criticized Aphrodite's love for Adonis. ![]() 9 months later, Aphrodite gave birth to a son, Hermaphroditus. Aphrodite then seduced him and slept with him. She ask Hermes to return her sandal but he refused. Aphrodite searched far and wide for her favourite sandal and she soon found out that Hermes stole her sandal (or bikini?). So he sent an eagle to steal Aphrodite's sandal (some sources says her bikini) and hide somewhere in Egypt. Hermes grew lustful after he saw Aphrodite bathing in a pool. She later gave birth to Adonis whom is Aphrodite's adopted son and her favourite lover.Įngraving of Aphrodite with Hermes by Carl August Schwerdgeburth and Johann Heinrich Ramberg. Smyrna ran and Aphrodite turned her into tree. Cinyras soon found out about this and chased her daughter. She slept with King Cinyras (whom is the father of Smyrna) for 9 nights. Wrathful Aphrodite cursed Smyrna and cause her to fell in love with her own father. Queen Cencheris boasted that her daughter Princess Smyrna is more beautiful than Aphrodite. Ares turned the poor boy into an ugly shark while Aphrodite cursed Pan that he will fall in love with a doomed nymph. Many gods were convinced that Aphrodite would win the challenge but Pan foolishly crowned Akhilleus as the winner. Zeus, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Hera, Aphrodite's boyfriend, Ares and the Erotes was also there to support her. Many of the Gods were present in the challenge. In ancient Greece, a boy named Akhilleus (not to be confused with Achilles from 'Iliad' by Homer) boasted that he was more beautiful than Aphrodite herself and foolishly the boy challenged her. Other stories Other myths involving Aphrodite, (not in chronological order): In both editions she made it to Mount Olympus becoming one of the Twelve Olympians. In the Iliad, Aphrodite is stated to be the daughter of Zeus, the King of the Gods and his secret lover, Dione, one of the Oceanids. In Theogony, Aphrodite is stated as the daughter of Uranus, the primordial god of the sky and the sea, who was born from Uranus' castrated parts falling into the sea, where she was formed and emerged as fully grown adult woman, pregnant with Eros. As one of The Twelve Olympians, she is a major goddess with her own throne beside them on Mount Olympus.Īphrodite's birth depicted by Sandro Botticelli, in his painting the Birth of Venus (circa mid 1480's) She is also assisted and helped in her duties by The Erotes, winged Gods of love who specialise in different areas of love. She overlooks and knows much about the lives of humans and the gods, overseeing their emotions and relationships and adding to them, whether good or bad. 3.1 Other myths involving Aphrodite, (not in chronological order):Īphrodite is the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Sex. ![]()
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