Afrodite, in
mythology Greek, was the goddess of the beauty and the sexual passion. Originary of Cyprus, its cult extended
Esparta, Corinto and Atenas to it. Its symbols were the dove, romã, the swan and murta. In the Roman panteão, Afrodite was identified with Venus.
Mythology offered two versions of its birth: according to Hesíodo, in the Teogonia, Uranus Cronos, son, mutilated the father and shot to the sea its genital agencies, and Afrodite would have been born of the foam (in Greek, aphros) thus formed; for Homero, it she would be son of Zeus and Dione, its companion in Dodona. For order of Zeus, Afrodite was married Hefesto, the lame god of the fire and ugliest of the immortal ones. It was to it many times unfaithful, over all with Airs, deity of the war, with who it had, among others
children, Eros and Harmonia. Others of its children had been Hermaphrodite, with Hermes, and Príapo, with Dioniso. Among mortal its loving, they had been distinguished the troiano shepherd Anquises, with who it had Enéias, and the Adônis young, célebre for its beauty. Afrodite possuía a magical cinturão of great seductive power and the effect of its passion was irresistible. The legends frequently show helping it the loving ones to surpass all the obstacles. To the measure that its cult if extended for the cities Greeks, also it increased the number of its attributes, almost always related with the erotismo and the fertility.