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Aphrodite: Erotic Love
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Aphrodite was interviewed about the things that make her happy for the Magazine. Want to know what they are? Cats, Daniel Craig as Bond, lipgloss, coffee, antiwrinkle creams, champagne, travel and the love of a good man.
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Matrimony never appealed to Aphrodite. She married Hephaestus but had many love affairs, the two most notorious ones with Ares and Adonis, which she flaunted before the august Greek pantheon. How often she flees the marriage bed can many attest, leaving a flock of contracts and bills to cement a union which has lost its luster.
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Phaethon 1 was a boy "in the tender flower of glorious youth" when he was ravished by Aphrodite [Hes.The.986]. According to some he was the son of Tithonus 2 [Apd.3.14.3], son of Cephalus 2, but some say that Cephalus 2 was Phaethon 1's father [Pau.1.3.1; Hes.The.986]. In any case with the ravishing of Phaethon 1 a familiar tradition was firmly established, because both Tithonus 1 (founder of Susa [Apd.3.12.14; Nonn.15.279]) and Cephalus 2 had been carried off by Eos (Cephalus 2 to Syria). Cephalus 2's wife and Phaethon 1's mother is said to have been either Eos (Dawn) or Hemera (Day). In spite of this common trait of abducting lovers, or because of it, Aphrodite did not like Eos particularly, and she caused her to be perpetually in love because Eos had lain with Ares [Apd.1.4.4].
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It is certainly possible for a modern person to be related to Aphrodite. Zeus had Aphrodite fall in love with Aniches to temper her wanton ways. From this union Aeneas was born. The Romans believed that when Troy fell Aeneas went on to found Rome. Many Romans were able to trace their ancestry to Aeneas. Many modern Europeans can trace their ancestry to Rome and so the possibility exists.
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Hermes, an Olympian god who leads the soul of the dead to Hades and is the messenger and herald of Zeus, loved Aphrodite and they had a child called Hermaphroditus or sometimes Atlantius. Hermaphroditus was so much loved by a Naiad (water-nymph) called Salmacis that their bodies were united in one [Ov.Met.4.288ff.; Hyg.Fab.271].
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Kupris is Aphrodite (Cypris is named after her). Empedocles is referring to a rule of love followed by a rule of strife with Ares being equated with strife. Ancient astrology seems to provide appropriate symbology and a timetable for this quote.
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