SALE! Start your year with EBSQ for just $6.50/month! Click here for details.

Art Show: Lessons, Icons, & Figures: Elements of World Mythology

Aphrodite's Potion

by Peggy Garr

Banner for Lessons, Icons, & Figures: Elements of World Mythology art show

Art: Aphrodite's Potion by Artist Peggy Garr
Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love and Beauty. According to The Odyssey she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, other myths speak of her as springing from the blood of Uranus after Cronus castrated him, and floating on the sea to Greece, where she was met by the Three Graces . She is exceedingly vain and thinks only of herself. I like to laugh at her eternal beauty and loveliness because she was a great grandmother of another God, Dionysus (who she also had a child by). She was married to Hephaestus, the Smith God, but she lusted after Ares, the much disliked God of War. She was also the patron Goddess of Prostitutes.

Comments

By commenting, you agree to our Community Guidelines.



© 2000-2025 EBSQ, LLC - All rights reserved - Original artists retain all rights
EBSQ Self Representing Artists - is a division of EBSQ, LLC
ladylike-spiral