, (detail) by Sandro Botticelli, 1485]]'Aphrodite (Greek: ????????; Latin:
Venus) (; Ancient Greek: , Modern Greek: ) is the classical Greek goddess
of love, lust, and beauty. She was also called Kypris and Cytherea after
the two places, Cyprus and Cythera, which claimed her birth. Her Roman
equivalent is the goddess Venus. Myrtle, dove, sparrow, and swan are
sacred to her.
Origins Aphrodite has numerous equivalents: Inanna (Sumerian counterpart),
Astarte (Syro-Palestinian), Turan (Etruscan), ) and Venus (Roman). She has
parallels to Indo-European dawn goddesses such as Ushas or Aurora.
The name was connected by popular etymology with ????? (Aphros) "foam",
interpreting it as "risen from the foam" and embodying it in an
etiological myth that was already known to HesiodHesiod, Theogony, 176ff..
It has reflexes in Messapic
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