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Venus ( / ˈviːnəs /) [ a] is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor.
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [3] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Psyche (mythology) Psyche ( / ˈsaɪkiː /; [ 3] Greek: Ψυχή, romanized : Psykhḗ Ancient Greek: [psyːkʰɛ̌ː]; Greek pronunciation: [psiˈçi]) is the Greek goddess of the soul and often represented as a beautiful woman with butterfly wings. [ 4] The name Psyche means "soul" in Greek [ 5] and was commonly referred to as such in Roman ...
Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass ), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). [ 2] The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche ( / ˈsaɪkiː /; Ancient Greek: Ψυχή, lit.
Alcestis and Admetus ( Greek) Alcyone and Ceyx ( Greek) Anto and Laura ( Roman) Apollo and Daphne ( Greek) Apollo and Hyacinth ( Greek) Ares / Mars and Aphrodite / Venus ( Greek) - ( Roman) Arjuna and Draupadi ( Hindu) Atalanta and Hippomenes / Melanion ( Greek) Balarama and Revati ( Hindu)
As the patron goddess of Rome and the Roman Empire, Juno was called Regina ("Queen") and was a member of the Capitoline Triad ( Juno Capitolina ), centered on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, and also including Jupiter, and Minerva, goddess of wisdom. Juno-Hera, antique fresco from Pompeii. Juno's own warlike aspect among the Romans is apparent in ...
Frigg ( / frɪɡ /; Old Norse: [ˈfriɡː]) [ 1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High ...
Venus (mythology) (2 C, 39 P) Pages in category "Venusian deities" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent ...