Aphrodite
Related: beauty - goddess - sexuality - love - Venus - Greece - god
Detail of the The Birth of Venus (also known as Aphrodite) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879.
In Plato's Symposium the speech of Pausanias distinguishes two manifestations of Aphrodite, represented by the two stories: Aphrodite Ourania ("heavenly" Aphrodite), and Aphrodite Pandemos ("Common" Aphrodite). These two manifestations represented her role in homosexuality and heterosexuality, respectively. --via Aphrodite's Wikipedia page [Aug 2006]
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Aphrodite, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite
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