Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.

Aphrodite is far more than just a simple love deity. This is the conclusion of Professor Bettany Hughes, who visited one of the proposed birthplaces of the deity — the coast of Paphos, Cyprus — in the ...

Tourists came from near and far to see her. Women visited to pay their respects and beseech her to fulfill their hopes and dreams, while prominent families gave offerings to her on behalf of their ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus, as in any interaction between consenting people or groups of ...

A set of Greek vases which form part of the National Museum of Archaeology’s reserve collection will be on display at the museum as part of an exhibition called From Aphrodite to Eros: Mythology on ...

The first Greek mythology quiz showed that there are a lot of people who are greatly interested in Greek mythology and quite knowledgeable of it, whether you’re interested in Greek mythology because ...