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Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Aphrodite is a major deity in Wicca, [315] [316] a contemporary nature-based syncretic Neopagan religion. [317] Wiccans regard Aphrodite as one aspect of the Goddess [316] and she is frequently invoked by name during enchantments dealing with love and romance. [318] [319] Wiccans regard Aphrodite as the ruler of human emotions, erotic spirituality, creativity, and art. [315] As one of the twelve Olympians, Aphrodite is a major deity within Hellenismos (Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism), [320] [321] a Neopagan religion which seeks to authentically revive and recreate the religion of ancient Greece in the modern world. [322] [ bettersourceneeded] Unlike Wiccans, Hellenists are usually strictly polytheistic or pantheistic. [323] [ bettersourceneeded] Hellenists venerate Aphrodite primarily as the goddess of romantic love, [321] [ bettersourceneeded] but also as a goddess of sexuality, the sea, and war. [321] [ bettersourceneeded] Her many epithets include "Sea Born", "Killer of Men", "She upon the Graves", "Fair Sailing", and "Ally in War". [321] [ bettersourceneeded] Genealogy Aphrodite's family tree [324] Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding on a goat, symbol of purely carnal rut: "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess," Pausanias remarks. The image was taken up again after the Renaissance: see Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584).

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Iossif, Panagiotis; Lorber, Catharine (2007), "Laodikai and the Goddess Nikephoros", L'Antiquité Classique, 76: 77, doi: 10.3406/antiq.2007.2618, ISSN 0770-2817, JSTOR 41665635 Penglase, Charles (1994), Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-15706-4

The Greek painter Apelles of Kos, a contemporary of Praxiteles, produced the panel painting Aphrodite Anadyomene ( Aphrodite Rising from the Sea). [259] According to Athenaeus, Apelles was inspired to paint the painting after watching the courtesan Phryne take off her clothes, untie her hair, and bathe naked in the sea at Eleusis. [259] The painting was displayed in the Asclepeion on the island of Kos. [259] The Aphrodite Anadyomene went unnoticed for centuries, [259] but Pliny the Elder records that, in his own time, it was regarded as Apelles's most famous work. [259] This claim is made at Symposium 180e. It is hard to interpret the role of the various speeches in the dialogue and their relationship to what Plato actually thought; therefore, it is controversial whether Plato, in fact, believed this claim about Aphrodite. See Frisbee Sheffield, "The Role of the Earlier Speeches in the "Symposium": Plato's Endoxic Method?" in J. H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee C. C. Sheffield (eds.), Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Harvard University Press (2006). Pausanias records that, in Sparta, Aphrodite was worshipped as Aphrodite Areia, which means "warlike". [36] [37] This epithet stresses Aphrodite's connections to Ares, with whom she had extramarital relations. [36] [37] Pausanias also records that, in Sparta [36] [37] and on Cythera, a number of extremely ancient cult statues of Aphrodite portrayed her bearing arms. [38] [53] Other cult statues showed her bound in chains. [53] Bonner, Campbell (1949), "KESTOS IMAS and the Saltire of Aphrodite", The American Journal of Philology, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 70 (1): 1–6, doi: 10.2307/290961, JSTOR 290961

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A male version of Aphrodite known as Aphroditus was worshipped in the city of Amathus on Cyprus. [49] [50] [51] Aphroditus was depicted with the figure and dress of a woman, but had a beard, and was shown lifting his dress to reveal an erect phallus. [49] [50] This gesture was believed to be an apotropaic symbol, and was thought to convey good fortune upon the viewer. [65] Eventually, the popularity of Aphroditus waned as the mainstream, fully feminine version of Aphrodite became more popular, but traces of his cult are preserved in the later legends of Hermaphroditus. [50] Worship Classical period Part of a series on All three goddesses were ideally beautiful and Paris could not decide between them, so they resorted to bribes. [211] Hera tried to bribe Paris with power over all Asia and Europe, [211] and Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle, [211] but Aphrodite promised Paris that, if he were to choose her as the fairest, she would let him marry the most beautiful woman on earth. [213] This woman was Helen, who was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. [213] Paris selected Aphrodite and awarded her the apple. [213] The other two goddesses were enraged and, as a direct result, sided with the Greeks in the Trojan War. [213] Once there, h