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Venus (Roman mythology the goddess)

in Roman mythology, the goddess of beauty and love, and more espedess of beauty and love, and more espe- VENUS, in Roman mythology, the godseats being the island of Cyprus and Cythera. This goddess is generally supposed to have been of eastern origin, and to have been the same as the Phœnician Astarte. Before her identification with the Greek Aphrodite, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, who, according to some accounts, arose from cording to some accounts, arose from the least important divinities. The Romans regarded her as the progenitress of their nation, which was fabled to have sprung from Æneas, the offspring of her union with the Trojan Anchises.

She was married to Vulcan, but was not remarkable for fidelity to her husband, She was married to Vulcan, but was not celebrated by classic poets and by The rose, myrtle, and Shakespeare. apple were sacred to her; among birds, the dove, swan, and sparrow were her favorites. She is generally represented with her son Cupid upid in a chariot drawn by doves, or, at other times, by swans or sparrows. Among the most famous favorites. She is generally represented with her son Cupid in a chariot drawn dus, by Praxiteles (of which the Venus by doves, or, at other times, by swans or sparrows. Among the most famous to be a copy), the Venus of Capua, and draped, in later times nude.

VENUS OF MILO With