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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Greek Goddess of Love

The Greek goddess of love was Aphrodite. She was born from Uranus, when he went into war and 3 of his blood drops fell in the sea, one of them turned into Aphrodite where she was carried by a sea shell and to a nearby island where the seasons clothed her and gave her jewels.

Aphrodite was like all goddesses and gods and could fall in love, she fell in love with Ares, the god of war, but as well later fell in love with a human Adonis, sadly also Persephone fell in love with him. Persephone was jealous and Ares that Aphrodite loved a human more than him so Ares turned into a boar and killed Adonis, but this is not the end of the story! Aphrodite pleaded to Zeus for Adonis back so Zeus agreed that in the summer Adonis could come to earth and be with Aphrodite but in the winter, must stay in the underworld.

Aphrodite could also be angry like all gods and here is one story about her getting angry. A human named Glauces insulted her and Aphrodite got mad, the night before his chariot race, she feed the horses poison, in the race, the horses went crazy and crashed killing Glauces, and then the horses ate him.

Aphrodite also rewarded her followers like a man named Pygmalion; he was a sculptor and worshiped Aphrodite. He never could fine a woman that was, as we call it, his "type". He made a statue of his perfect woman and it worked so well, that he fell in love. He knew that she was a statue and couldn't love back so when Aphrodite took pity on her, she made the statue come to life! The man named her Galatea and married her.


So, what do you think of Aphrodite, is she nice, mean, innocent, a victim? Would you hang out with her?
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  1. AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 at 12:27 PM

    That's really interesting Justin. I like all those stories about Aphroditie and how she fell in love and everything. I never knew that she fell in love with a human. that sounds a lot like the story of Persephone. Hades fell in love her and took her into the underworld. When her mom Demeter found out she went to hades land but persephone ate found from the under world and was forced to stay there. Then demeter pleaded with zeus and zeus allowed Persephone to come to the world during the summer and in winter she had to live with hades. But i think it's really weird that the gods fall in love with mortals so much. Why do you think the gods fall in love with humans and half bloods all the time?

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