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noungoddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus
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- hero (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
- venus goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
- eros (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
- adonis (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone
- pygmalion (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea
- cyprian resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus
- urania goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
- galatea (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers
- pseudohermaphrodite someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth
- hermaphroditus (Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body