Aphrodite

==Hi ,I'm Aphrodite**/**Venues. I'm the goddess of love. My birth was very odd. Athena's was too. I was born from oranous's blood as it hit the sea,it made sea foam. T ==

he sea foam made me.
**I would often help young people in love: Atalanta, a virgin huntress, used to force her wooers to race before her, but if she caught them she would put them to death. If anybody survived she would marry him.** **Well, if you knew me at all, you just knew that Atalanta's reluctance to tramp around didn't sit well with me. 'What's that girl doing, killing Calydonian boars and running through woods hunting with the men, when there's such a much better reason to be in the company of males?' I wondered.** **But I wasn't all lovey-dovey. I could be harsh to those who defied me. The Lemnian women did not honor me, I inflicted a foul smell on them and caused their husbands to consort with Thracian women. The Lemnian women, abandoned by their husbands, killed all the men on the island and established a society of women.**
 * Grass and flowers sprang up wherever my feet touched the earth. The Seasons clothed, perfumed and covered me in jewels, and brought me before the Immortals. **
 * I was so beautiful that, after her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over my hand in marriage. So he married me off to Hephaestus, the steadiest of the gods. **
 * A man named Melanion (also known as Hippomenes) had a crush on beautiful Atalanta, but was astute enough to know he had no chance to beat her in the race. I gave Melanion three golden apples, which he scattered on the ground as he ran. Atalanta could not help but stop to pick up the exquisite fruit, and was thus beaten in the race. **



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Citation
//Birth of Aphrodite//. Digit Pontikis, Nick. "Aphrodite." //Thanasi's Greek Restaurant//. Web. 19 July 2011. . al image. //Theoi.com//. Web. 19 July 2011.