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Transcript
Aphrodite
Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality.
Goddess of…
Love
Beauty
Sexuality
Even fictional characters support
Trojans!
 APHRODITE & THE TROJAN WAR
 I) THE ILIAD: PERSUADES ARES TO SUPPORT THE TROJANS
 At the outset of the Trojan War the gods took sides. Ares promised
his mother Hera and Athena that he would side with them and
support the Greeks, but Aphrodite persuaded him otherwise and he
joined the Trojan faction.
 Homer, Iliad 5. 699 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"[Athena declared:] ‘Violent Ares, that thing of fury, evil-wrought,
that double-faced liar who even now protested to Hera and me,
promising that he would fight against the Trojans and stand by the
Argives. Now, all promises forgotten, he stands by the Trojans.’"
 Homer, Iliad 5. 757 ff :
"[Hera to Zeus:] ‘Father Zeus, are you not angry with Ares for his
violent acts, for killing so many and such good Akhaian warriors for
now reason, and out of due order, to grieve me? And meanwhile
Kypris [Aphrodite] and Apollon of the silver bow take their ease and
their pleasure having let loose this maniac who knows nothing of
justice.’
It is what the Greek people
believed in back in the day. There
are still some nutty dudes out
there that wish Aphrodite would
visit them once in a while!!!!!