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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 ...

The Philbrook's current exhibit, "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love," is the first museum show to focus on Aphrodite and her myriad manifestations in the art and culture of the ancient world. It was ...

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 ...

Who was Aphrodite? She's often thought of as a goddess of sexuality, but there's so much more to this woman. Which ancient ...

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 ...

Our lives are the sum of our choices.

This past March, the J. Paul Getty Museum repatriated the 2,400-year-old statue—the most recent of more than 40 objects at the museum that Italy said had been illegally removed. Francesco Lastrucci ...

Aphrodite wants to ask you about love. And she wants to do it while decked out in a mermaid costume and sitting atop a clamshell inside a giant, hot-pink television set on wheels. Performance artist ...