Venus In Greek Mythology

In Roman mythology Venus was the goddess of love, sex, and fertility. Venus was the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. However Venus had way more abilities beyond Aphrodite, Venus was the goddess of victory, fertility, and prostitution. According to ancient.eu/venus, Venus was born of the foam from the sea after Saturn castrated his father Uranus and his blood fell to the sea. Venus had two lovers her husband Vulcan and her infamous affair with mars. It was a myth that Venus and mars love affair and how Vulcan cunningly trapped them in bed with a net. According to ancient,eu/venus. Therefore, Vulcan and Venus had a loveless marriage and no children. Venus, the goddess of love and sex was not barren: she had many children from different gods. For example with Mars she gave birth to Timor the personification of fear, his twin Metus the personification of terror, Concordia the goddess of harmony and concord, and the Cupids who were a collection of

Aeneas was born by way of Venus' tryst with the mortal Anchises, whom she seduced in the guise of a Phrygian princess, a myth borrowed directly from the Greeks. Legend holds that it was Venus who aided Aeneas in escaping from the burning city of Troy, protecting him from Juno's wrath. Later on, she had Dido, the queen of Carthage, fall in love with Aeneas and grant him refuge in the process. After Aeneas' death, Venus asked Jupiter to render Aeneas immortal. Jupiter agreed, and after the river god Numicius had cleansed Aeneas of all his mortal parts, Venus anointed him with Ambrosia and Nectar, elevating him to godly status. Since Aeneas is a distant descendant of Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome, Venus was also considered a divine ancestor of the entire race of Roman