Name:   Aphrodite ( Venus )

 

Mother:  Dione ( some myths say she rose from the sea when Cronus was castraited )

 

Father:   Zeus ( or Crouns )

 

Husband:   Hephaestus ( Volcan )

 

Children:   Cupid, Aeneus

 

Nicknames:  Cythera

 

Goddess Of:  Love

 

 

Symbols: myrtle ( tree ), dove

 

 

Myths Involved In:   Judgement of Pairs, Aeneid

 

Special:  Aphrodite was so beutiful, no man could resist her. Zeus quickly chouse a husband for her, for if he did not there whould be much fuding. Zeus chouse Hephastus to marry her. Although he was not handsome, he made her fine jewelry that made her evean more irrisistable, since he was the god os smiths and fire.