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Aphrodite governs desire and sexuality. She is also known as Cytherea, Cypris, and Venus (Roman). She is often pictured with a sceptre or a mirror.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.3.1

• Hesiod: Theogony 195

• Homer: Iliad 5.363

Domain

• Pausanias 4.30.5

• Plato: Phaedrus 265b

• Homeric Hymn 5.1

• Homeric Hymn 6.1

• Euripides: Medea 630, Euripides: Medea 636

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Adonis: Apollodorus 1.3.3, Apollodorus 3.14.4

• Anchises -> Aeneas: Apollodorus 3.12.3, Homer: Iliad 2.820, Homeric Hymn 5.1
  Read the whole Hymn by using the "Next Section" link.

• Ares -> Harmonia, Panic, and Fear: Apollodorus 3.4.2, Pausanias 5.18.5, Plato: Symposium 196d, Pindar: Pythian 4.86, Hesiod: Theogony 930, Hesiod: Theogony 975, Homer: Odyssey 8.265, Homer: Odyssey 8.295, Homer: Odyssey 8.343

• Dionysos -> Priapus: Pausanias 9.31.2

Other Encounters

• Aeneas: Homer: Iliad 5.310

• Athene: Homer: Iliad 21.415

• Butes: Apollodorus 1.9.25

• Creusa: Pausanias 10.26.1

• Daughters of Pandareos: Pausanias 10.30.1, Homer: Odyssey 20.65

• Dawn: Apollodorus 1.4.4

• Diomedes: Apollodorus e.4.2, Homer: Iliad 5.318, Homer: Iliad 5.363, Homer: Iliad 5.416

• Hera: Homer: Iliad 14.185, Homer: Iliad 14.193

• Hector: Homer: Iliad 23.185

• Lemnian women: Apollodorus 1.9.18

• Love: Plato: Symposium 203c

• Pandora: Hesiod: Works and Days 65

• Paris (Alexander): Apollodorus e.3.2, Apollodorus e.4.1

• Paris and Helen: Homer: Iliad 3.380, Homer: Iliad 3.381, Homer: Iliad 3.421

• Phaethon: Hesiod: Theogony 975

• Tyndareus: Pausanias 3.15.11

Also see Aphrodite images.

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