THE goddess Venus she is the goddess of love and beauty in Roman mythology. For the Romans, she represented the ideal of female beauty.
He was one of the most revered figures in ancient times and in Greek mythology, corresponding to the goddess Aphrodite.
Venus Representation
The representation of Venus is of a young, beautiful, naked woman. As an ideal of beauty, her body is sculptural with balanced measures and that is why she is also associated with eroticism. In some images, she appears in a car driven by swans.
History
There are some controversies about the myth of Venus, because in one of the versions, she would be the daughter of Jupiter, god of the heavens, and Dione, goddess of nymphs. In another version of the legend, Venus was born from the foam of the sea and inside a shell.
As she was greatly envied for her beauty, some goddesses were dissatisfied with the reactions she caused in men.
So Diana, goddess of hunting, Minerva, goddess of reason, and Vesta, goddess of the home, asked Venus' father Jupiter to be granted a marriage.
Certain that the problem would be solved, Jupiter ordered her to marry Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. However, he was ugly and suffered from a disability that left him lame (lame).
Even though the choice did not please the goddess, Venus married him, however, she maintained extramarital relations with other gods and mortals.
One of the best known is the relationship she had with Mars, the god of war. With him, she had some children, of which Cupid, the god of love, deserves special mention.
She also had a relationship with Anchises, the Trojan prince, and from that relationship was born Aeneas. Bacchus, the god of wine, and Mercury, the messenger god, were also her lovers. From the first one Priapo was born and with the last one had Hermafrofito.
Venus Symbol
The symbol of Venus ♀, represented by a circle and a cross, is an astrological symbol for the planet Venus and is associated with the Roman goddess of love. In biology, this same symbol means the female gender.
Read too:
- Roman Mythology
- Roman gods
- Venus de Milo
