Aphrodite has long been characterized as the goddess of love. But a traveling exhibition devoted to the Greek idol – on view through July 9 at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Getty Villa – is building on ...

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The Philbrook's current exhibit, "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love," is the first museum show to focus on Aphrodite and her myriad manifestations in the art and culture of the ancient world. It was ...

Throughout Greek antiquity, Aphrodite was worshiped as the goddess of love and beauty, pleasure and fertility. Sculptors immortalized her beguiling sensuality in marble statues found on Mount Olympus.

Aphrodite is far more than just a simple love deity. This is the conclusion of Professor Bettany Hughes, who visited one of the proposed birthplaces of the deity — the coast of Paphos, Cyprus — in the ...

The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite and the Romans called her Venus. For us, today, her name evokes the idea of love, romance and erotic adventures. The new exhibition at the Getty Villa, Aphrodite and ...

Through the ages, Aphrodite's name has become synonymous with love, beauty and sex. But like most women — divine or not — the goddess was more complex than that. “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,” an ...

Aphrodite, known to the world as the Greek goddess of love and beauty, seems to have found her home in the Torf Gallery of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In an exhibit titled “Aphrodite and the Gods ...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has cast Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite and what appears to be a strange choice is actually ...

“Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,” the first special exhibition focused on the art and culture of ancient Greece at the San Antonio Museum of Art, opens Saturday. The show features 125 objects and ...

One of the most famous of the Olympian gods will be making her introduction in the third season of Percy Jackson and the ...

In author Rick Riordan 's third Percy Jackson novel, The Titan's Curse, Aphrodite appears before Percy (played by Walker ...