Aphrodite by CTCWeb Editors Associated Items and Beings A god or goddess alone is inadequately defined since the people, beings, animals and things associate with a god or goddess say a lot about them. Through visual aids and texts, students can learn about the whole god or goddess by the items, people, beings, animals, and things that accompany them or that are used in their exploits. Below are citations for selected vases, coins, sculpture, and text that demonstrate and explain the people, beings, animals and things associated with Aphrodite. Each representative vase, coin and sculpture has been selected for its image clarity and description. People Dione Apollodorus 1.3.1 daughter of Zeus and Dione. Homer, Iliad 5.370 Aphrodite on the knees of her mother. Parthenon East Pediment Dione with Aphrodite. Aeneas Boston 97.368 Aphrodite rescuing Aeneas from Diomedes. Ares Homer, Odyssey 8.266 story of Ares and Aphrodite's affair. Eros Dewing 2488 Eros with Aphrodite. Parthenon, East Frieze 6.38-42 Eros holding parasol with Aphrodite. Parthenon, East Frieze slab 6 Aphrodite and Eros. Boston 01.8032 Eros attends the birth of Aphrodite. Harvard 1960.347 Eros flies towards Aphrodite with a wreath. Cincinnati 1962.386-388 Aphrodite sends little Eros to Helen. Euripides, Hippolytus lines 525-532, 537-540. Euripides, Hippolytus lines 1268-1281. Pausanias, 2.5.1 appear armed with a bow with Aphrodite. Pausanias 9.27.1 the son of Aphrodite. Adonis Apollodorus 1.3.3 Aphrodite caused Clio to love Adonis. Apollodorus 3.14.4 Adonis lives with Aphrodite. Animals Goat Plutarch, Theseus 18.2 Theseus sacrificed she-goat to Aphrodite. Pegasus Dewing 1783 from Corinth with Pegasus. Things Broidered Zone Homer, Iliad Book 14. Rose Pausanias 6.24.7. Myrtle Pausanias 6.24.7. Table of Contents >> Epithets

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