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Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Biographical Information
Name: Aphrodite
Goddess: Love, Beauty, Sexuality, Pleasure, Reproduction
Mentoring: Neil
Home: Olympus
Family:

Psyche (Daughter-in-law)

Children:

Eris (Daughter)
Eros (Son)

Weapon:

Love Potion

Abilities:

Immortality
Electrokinesis (limited)
Teleportation
Enchanted Allure
Amokinesis

Physical Description
Gender: Female
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5'4"
Character Information
First appearance: Chaos 103
Portrayed by: Tabitha St. Germain
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Characters Female Immortals Goddess  Olympian Season One Season Two

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty and is Neil's mentor.

In the series, she is stated to be the mother of Eris and Eros.

Appearance[]

Aphrodite is a tall, slender, and incredibly beautiful woman. She has long, wavy hair she keeps in an up-do with a small gold tiara. She is usually seen wearing a fitting red dress and gold sandals. She also wears gold earrings and bracelets. There is a small mole on the lower side of her right cheek.

True to her title, Aphrodite is very beautiful. Whether by her sheer beauty or some supernatural allure, both Jay and Archie found her to be hypnotically attractive and had to be dragged out of the room by the very annoyed girls.

Personality[]

She can be an air-headed and shallow woman who loves good-looking people, especially herself. She is also portrayed as very vain and self-absorbed, seeing as she seems to spend most of her time either making herself look even more beautiful or admiring herself in the mirror.

However, she does care for those around her and is kind to them. When a situation arises that needs her area of expertise, she provides as much information as possible to help them.

Throughout the Series[]

Season One
In Chaos 103 she and her attendants were supposed to bring Neil to New Olympus High School. Aphrodite did not bother, as she had better things to do, which led the heroes to go get Neil themselves.

Season Two
In Applet of Discord, Eris spreads discord among both the heroes and The Gods. Causing chaos all throughout the city and nearly causing a devastating explosion at the school.

In Face Off, Aphrodite and Persephone had fought over Adonis, which resulted in Aphrodite locking his spirit away in Pandora's Box. Aphrodite forgot he was there, but he was freed several millennia later by Neil. He instantly gains the attention of all female company in sight, much to Neil's displeasure. His reappearance causes Aphrodite and Persephone to fight over the hunter again, causing Envy to appear. Envy attempts to curse Neil, who is saved by Adonis, but is possessed with envy and attempts to kill Neil, until Envy is trapped in Pandora's Box. Adonis decides to give up on Persephone and Aphrodite in order to go to a place where strength of character matters more than appearance so that he will be treated as a person and not an object.

Appearances[]

Season One

Season Two

Mythology[]

Aphrodite is the Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, fertility, passion and procreation. Her major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. She was born near the island of Cyprus, after Cronus cut off his father, Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the aphros (sea foam) arose Aphrodite. while the Giants, centaurs, The furies. and the Meliae emerged from the drops of his blood.

Zeus hastily married Aphrodite to Hephaestus the god of blacksmiths and metalworking in order to prevent the other gods from fighting over her. Or possibly, Hephaestus gave his mother Hera a golden throne, but when she sat on it, she was trapped and he refused to let her go until she agreed to give him Aphrodite's hand in marriage. Hephaestus was overjoyed to be married to the goddess of beauty and forged her beautiful jewelry. After forced into marrying Hephaestus, Aphrodite was frequently unfaithful to him, with many lovers.

Aphrodite and Ares became lovers during The Trojan War. The sun-god Helios saw Aphrodite and Ares having sex in Hephaestus's bed and warned Hephaestus, who fashioned a net of gold. The next time they had sex, the net trapped them both. Hephaestus brought all The Gods to laugh at the captured adulterers, but Apollo, Hermes, and Poseidon had sympathy for Ares, and Poseidon agreed to pay Hephaestus for Ares's release. Humiliated, Aphrodite returned to Cyprus, where she was attended by The Charites.

Attendants
Aphrodite is often accompanied by Eros, the God of Lust and Sexual desire. Eros is often seen as Aphrodite's son, but is not. Aphrodite's main attendants were the three Charites, and the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, named as Aglaea (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Good Cheer), and Thalia (Abundance). The Charites had been worshipped as goddesses in Greece since the beginning of Greek history, long before Aphrodite was introduced. Aphrodite's other set of attendants was the three Horae of Zeus and Themis named Eunomia (Good Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirene (Peace). Aphrodite was also sometimes accompanied by Harmonia, a daughter of Ares, and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera.

The fertility God Priapus was usually considered to be Aphrodite's son by Dionysus. Hera envied her and applied an evil potion to her belly while she was sleeping to ensure that the child would be hideous. When Aphrodite gave birth, the child had a massive, permanently erect penis, a potbelly, and a huge tongue. Aphrodite abandoned the infant to die in the wilderness, but a herdsman found him, later discovering Priapus could use his penis to aid in the growth of plants.

Anchises
Zeus became annoyed with Aphrodite for causing deities to fall in love with mortals, so he caused her to fall in love with Anchises, a handsome shepherd who lived near the city of Troy. Aphrodite appears to Anchises in the form of a tall, beautiful, mortal virgin dressed in bright clothing and gleaming jewelry. He asks if she was Aphrodite, and she said no. Insisting she is the daughter of one of the noble families, and was snatched by Hermes while dancing in a celebration in honor of Artemis, the goddess of virginity. She promises she's a virgin and begs him to take her to his parents. Anchises is overcome with lust swears and takes her to his bed. After Aphrodite reveals herself and promises to bear him a son, a demi-god Aeneas, who will be raised by the Nymphs of the wilderness for five years before going to Troy to become a nobleman.

Jason and the Argonauts
Aphrodite generously rewarded those who honored her, but also punished those who disrespected her, often quite brutally. When the women of the island of Lemnos refused to sacrifice to Aphrodite, the goddess cursed them to stink horribly so their husbands would never have sex with them. Instead, they started having sex with their Thracian slave-girls. In anger, the women murdered the entire male population of the island, and all the Thracian slaves. When Jason and the Argonauts arrived on Lemnos, they mated with the women under Aphrodite's approval and repopulated the island.

Theseus & Hippolytus
Theseus's son Hippolytus worships only Artemis and refuses to engage in any form of sexual contact. Aphrodite is infuriated by his prideful behavior and declares that, by honoring only Artemis, Hippolytus has directly challenged her authority. Aphrodite causes his stepmother, Phaedra, to fall in love with him, knowing Hippolytus will reject her. Phaedra commits suicide and leaves a note to Theseus telling him she killed herself because Hippolytus attempted to rape her. Theseus prays to Poseidon to kill Hippolytus for his transgression. Poseidon sends a wild bull to scare Hippolytus's horses as he is riding by the sea, causing the horses to bolt and smash the chariot against the cliffs, dragging Hippolytus to a bloody death. Artemis vowing to kill Aphrodite's own mortal beloved Adonis in revenge.

Adonis
Queen Myrrha was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras after bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess. Driven out after becoming pregnant, Myrrha was changed into a myrrh tree but still gave birth to Adonis.

Aphrodite took him to The Underworld to be fostered by Persephone. She returned for him once he was grown, becoming strikingly handsome. Persephone wanted to keep Adonis, creating a war between them. Zeus settled the dispute by decreeing that Adonis would spend one third of the year with Aphrodite, one third with Persephone, and one third with whomever he chose. Adonis chose Aphrodite. One day while Adonis was hunting, he was wounded by a wild boar and bled to death in Aphrodite's arms. The boar was either sent by Ares, who was jealous that Aphrodite was spending so much time with him, or Artemis, who wanted revenge against Aphrodite for killing her devoted follower Hippolytus.

Pandora
Zeus orders Aphrodite to make Pandora, the first woman, physically beautiful and sexually attractive, so that she may become "an evil, men will love to embrace". Aphrodite "spills grace" over Pandora's head and equips her with "painful desire and knee-weakening anguish", making her the perfect vessel for evil to enter the world. Aphrodite's attendants adorn Pandora with gold and jewelry.

Atalanta & Hippomenes
Aphrodite aided Hippomenes, a noble youth who wished to marry Atalanta, a maiden who was renowned throughout the land for her beauty, but refused to marry any man unless he could outrun her. Atalanta was an exceedingly swift runner and beheaded all the men who lost to her. Aphrodite gave Hippomenes three golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides and instructed him to toss them in front of Atalanta as he raced her. Atalanta, seeing the beautiful fruits bent down to pick up each one, allowing Hippomenes to outrun her. Hippomenes forgets to repay Aphrodite, so causes the couple to become inflamed with lust while they were staying at the temple of Cybele. The couple desecrate the temple by having sex in it, leading Cybele to turn them into lions as punishment.

Pygmalion
Pygmalion was an exceedingly handsome sculptor from the island of Cyprus, who was sickened by the immorality of women that he refused to marry. He fell madly and passionately in love with the ivory statue he was carving of Aphrodite and longed to marry it. Because Pygmalion was extremely pious and devoted to Aphrodite, the goddess brought the statue to life. Pygmalion married the girl and they had a son named Paphos.

Polyphonte was a young woman who chose a virginal life with Artemis instead of marriage and children, as favored by Aphrodite. Aphrodite cursed her, causing her to have children by a bear. The resulting offspring, Agrius and Oreius, were wild cannibals who incurred the hatred of Zeus. Ultimately, he transformed all the members of the family into birds of ill omen.

Paris
All The Gods were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (Achilles' Parents). Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. Annoyed, she arrived with a golden apple inscribed with the word "for the fairest", and threw it among the goddesses. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all insisted they were the rightful owner of the apple.

The goddesses brought the matter before Zeus, who, not wanting to favor anyone, gave Paris, a Trojan prince the task. All three were ideally beautiful and Paris could not decide between them, so they resorted to bribes. Hera offered power over all Asia and Europe, and Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle, but Aphrodite promised Paris she would let him marry the most beautiful woman on earth. Helen, who was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. Paris selected Aphrodite and awarded her the apple. As a direct result, the other two sided with the Greeks in The Trojan War.

The Trojan War
Aphrodite rescues Paris from King Menelaus after he foolishly challenges him to a one-on-one duel. She appears to Helen in the form of an old woman and attempts to persuade her to have sex with Paris, reminding her of his physical beauty and athletic prowess. Helen immediately recognizes Aphrodite and chides the goddess, addressing her as her equal. Aphrodite sharply rebukes Helen, reminding her that, if she vexes her, she will punish her just as much as she has favored her already. Helen demurely obeys Aphrodite's command.

Aphrodite charges into battle to rescue her son Aeneas from the Greek hero Diomedes. Diomedes nicks her wrist through her "ambrosial robe". Aphrodite borrows Ares's chariot to ride back to Mount Olympus. Zeus chides her for putting herself in danger. Aphrodite helps Hera seduce Zeus, thus distracting him from the combat while Poseidon aids the Greek forces on the beach. Aphrodite again enters the battlefield to carry Ares away after he is wounded.

Trivia[]

  • Her birthplace was a place of pilgrimage in the ancient world for centuries; the sea.
  • While the series claims she is the mother of Eris, this is not mythologically correct.
  • Although she is stated to be 5'4", she is often seen standing a little taller than Neil who is 6'0" though this could be her adjusting her height like many of the Gods.

References[]

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