Popular stand-up comic Judy Tenuta, known to her fans as “The Love Goddess” and “Aphrodite of the Accordion,” died of ovarian cancer on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. She was 72. Known for her ...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has revealed its goddess of love and beauty. The Disney+ fantasy series has cast comedian Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite for Season 3 ahead of the second season’s release.

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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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Things do not start well. Venus – or Aphrodite as she was originally called by the Greeks – was a primordial creature, said to have been ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

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