Ἀφροδίτη - is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. She was born from the foam of the sea.
“Do you not see what a great goddess Aphrodite is? She whom you can neither name nor measure, how great she is by nature from how great a thing she comes through. She nourishes you and me and all the mortals. And as proof, so that you might not only comprehend this in words, I will show you by deed, the strength of the goddess. On the one hand earth desires rain when the dry barren ground is in need of moisture on account of drought; and on the other hand, the revered sky, when it is filled with rain by Aphrodite, desires that it fall on the earth; and when the two mingle into the same thing, they beget everything for us, and at the same time, they nurture everything through which the mortal race lives and grows.” – Euripides frag. 898
Hades looked her up and down, judging her leopard fur coat and her too-short dress. She knew he thought she was trash, and that made her lift her chin even higher.
“So you’re Ares’ whore,” he smiled, as if talking about the lovely weather.
Aphrodite’s eye twitched, but she kept on smiling. If she was going to be an actress, she might as well practice on ill-mannered assholes like Hades.
“No, Hades,” she replied sweetly, “I’m Hephaestus’ wife."
