Greek mythology often reads like a soap opera for deities ... A ravishing goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite is the ultimate sex symbol — so irresistible, Hamilton wrote, that she “stole away even ...

Many Greek gods and goddesses ... of Ares and Aphrodite is likely a cautionary tale akin to biblical warnings of the time. Ares is the spirit of warriors in battle, so most symbols and iconography ...

In Roman mythology, roses were closely associated with Venus, the goddess of love, while in Greek mythology, Aphrodite was ...