Aphrodite may be the Greek goddess of love and sensual desire, but for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, she has come to symbolize the nasty underworld of an illicit antiquities trade that has ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus, as in any interaction between consenting people or groups of ...

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A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Patricia Cronin, installation view in Sullivan Gallery, Patricia Cronin, Aphrodite, and the Lure of Antiquity: Conversations with the Collection at the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (all image ...

​​Used to describe the soft, curved, goddess-like figure many women have, the "Aphrodite body" isn't a term from antiquity, despite the associations with the goddess of love, beauty, desire, and ...

A trip to Kythera for the Australian author and her mother results in this unsparing and intimate look at their intense and often unhappy dynamic When Susan Johnson began planning her return to ...

Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, has powerful options for both offense and defense. This goddess is often easily underestimated by the Hades community, but there are actually a lot of good synergies ...