Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Things do not start well. Venus – or Aphrodite as she was originally called by the Greeks – was a primordial creature, said to have been ...

Close your eyes and think of Venus. What image comes to mind? Perhaps Botticelli’s bored teenager in her scallop shell; maybe the Venus de Milo, serene, lovely and just a touch bovine; perhaps ...

Award-winning British historian Bettany Hughes traces the roots of the goddess Venus through ancient art, evocative myth and archaeological digs. She says, “Venus was never just a goddess of romantic ...

Two marble statues representing Aphrodite/Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love, were found recently at Petra, an ancient desert city in Jordan. The statues, which date to the second century A.D., ...

Aphrodite (or Venus to the Romans) is thought to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. According to Greek myth, Uranus and Gaia had a son named Cronus. The parents fought and Gaia ...

New archaeological discoveries in Jerash have been described as “priceless” by historians and archaeologists, among them was an almost-whole sculpture of the Greek goddess of love and beauty ...

The statue is known as the Venus de' Medici. A figure of Cupid is riding on a dolphin at her feet. Cupid and the dolphin are both tiny by comparison, to give the impression of a giant goddess stepping ...

British historian Hughes (Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities) presents a brisk and incisive cultural history of the mythological goddess of sexual love. Called Aphrodite by the ancient Greeks and Venus ...