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.

Statuette of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frank B. Bemis Fund Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 1st century B.C. Bathing vessel ...

For those who think that ancient Greece was all philosophy and marathons, a scintillating exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston proves otherwise. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Aphrodite and ...

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That is it – some eminent Greek and Roman gods had wives! Just as some eminent goddesses had husbands. And please – you my dear friend over there – don’t ask me too soon why I am saying the ...

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

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 ...

After years of meticulous work, a French archaeological team that has been excavating the eastern Roman baths in Jerash, unearthed several intact sculptures from the Graeco-Roman period. An event to ...