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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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Images

Ancient Sources

• Coin: Reverse
  Info, Archaic

• Judgement of Paris: Image
  Ivory comb, ca 600 BC, MM

• Judgement of Paris: Image
  Antimenes Painter, ca 530 BC, MM

• Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo: Large image, 50% image
  Olympian Gods in council--the pro-Trojan faction
  Treasury of the Siphnians in Delphi, ca 525 BC marble, AS

• Ares and Aphrodite: Image
  Oltos, ca 515-500 BC, MM

• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Procession of the Gods: Aphrodite and Ares: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Birth of Aphrodite: Large image, 50% image
  Graecia Ludovisi Throne, ca 470-460 BC, AS

• Aphrodite rides a goose: Image
  Pistoxenos Painter, ca 460 BC, MM

• Aphrodite: Image
  White-ground cup, Lyandros Painter, Museo Archeologico Florence, c 460 BC, HC

• Coin: Reverse
  Info, Classical

• Aphrodite: Image
  Gold finger ring, 4th century BC, MM

• Aphrodite and Pan: Image
  Mirror cover, ca 4th century BC, MM

• Aphrodite coming out of shell: Image
  Terracotta statue, 4th century BC, MM

• Aphrodite and Erotes: Large image, 50% image
  Apulian vase, ca 380 BC, MM

• Birth of Aphrodite: Image
  Attic Pelike, ca 370-360 BC, MM

• Venus of Arles: Large image, 50% image
  Roman copy after original attributed to Praxiteles, ca 360 BC, AS

• Aphrodite and Adonis: Large image, 50% image
  Bronze mirror cover, ca 4th century BC, MM

• Aphrodite of Cnidos: Large image, 50% image
  Greco-Roman copy after cult statue by Praxiteles, ca 350-340 BC, AS

• Venus of Vienna: Large image, 50% image
  Crouching Aphrodite (Roman copy), ca 3rd century BC, AS

• Aphrodite and Eros: Large image, 50% image
  Terracotta stattue, 2nd century BC, MM

• Venus di Milo: Large image, 50% image
  Aphrodite of Melos, ca 150-100 BC, AS

• Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan: Large image, 50% image
  Delos, ca 100 BC, AS

• Aphrodite: Image
  1st century BC, MM

• Capitoline Venus: Image
  ca 3-2 BC, MM

• Courtship of Venus and Mars: Image
  House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, ca 30 AD, AA

• Courtship of Venus and Mars: Full Image
  House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, ca 30 AD,TM

• Venus: Large image, 50% image
  Pompeiian wall painting: Casa dei Venus, 1st century AD, MM

• Ares and Aphrodite: Image
  Roman wall painting, 1st century AD, MM

Later Representations in Art

• Mars and Venus: Image
  Botticelli, Sandro, 15th century, WT

• The Birth of Venus: Image
  Botticelli, Sandro, 15th century, WT

• Venus and Cupid: Image
  Cranach, Lucas, 1531, MM

• Mars and Venus caught in the net and shown by Vulcan to gods: Large image, 50% image
  Heemskerk, Martin Van, 1536, MM

• Venus with a mirror: Image
  Titian, 1552-1555, MM

• Venus and Adonis: Image
  Rubens, Peter Paul, ca 1610, MM

Also see Aphrodite texts.

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