Close your eyes and think of Venus. What image comes to mind? Perhaps Botticelli’s bored teenager in her scallop shell; maybe the Venus de Milo, serene, lovely and just a touch bovine; perhaps ...

British historian Hughes (Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities) presents a brisk and incisive cultural history of the mythological goddess of sexual love. Called Aphrodite by the ancient Greeks and Venus ...

Aphrodite (or Venus to the Romans) is thought to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. According to Greek myth, Uranus and Gaia had a son named Cronus. The parents fought and Gaia ...

The statue is known as the Venus de' Medici. A figure of Cupid is riding on a dolphin at her feet. Cupid and the dolphin are both tiny by comparison, to give the impression of a giant goddess stepping ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If your image of Aphrodite’s birth is of a lithe strawberry blond ...

Golden Aphrodite who stirs with love all creation,” writes Edith Hamilton in “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes.” That same stirring presence appears in Félix Resurrección Hidalgo’s ...

Fantasies about domination and submission go back as far as Aphrodite and Venus, but Thomas (Adam Booth) has chosen to adapt the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (whose name ...