Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of sexual love, beauty and fertility. She, in Greek mythology, is daughter of Zeus and Dione, wife of Hephæstos and mother of Cupid. She is named Aphrodite as being sprung from sea-foam. Aphrodite, in Greek, literally means 'foam-born'. As queen of beauty had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.

The Roman equivalent of Aphrodite is Venus.

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Aphtha, API, Apia, Apian, Apiarist