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 ...

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There is a prevalent pressure to look a certain way, but beauty standards are not universal. A 22-year-old named Whitney pointed this out with side-by-side photos of a statue of Aphrodite, the Greek ...

Kate McKinnon is joining the cast of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” for its third season. She will play Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. According to the show’s official description ...

Evidence of human settlement on the Urla-Çeşme peninsula, where the temple was found, dates back to the late Neolithic period. Yağmur Aydın via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers ...