Goddess Venus. 16 cm.

Description

Reproduction made of ceramic with a slight patina.

Height: 16 cm.

Reproduction of a figure representing the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Venus for the Romans. Original figure found in France.

Venus – Aphrodite is the goddess of love. She was born from the foam of the sea of Cyprus, fertilised by the genitals of Uranus, thrown there by his son Cronus (Saturn) after he had castrated him. Aphrodite is the “Mistress of the smile”, the “braider of deceptions”.

During the trial of Paris, the goddesses Hera and Athena were powerless against her seductive beauty. She was the protector of Troy and of Prince Paris, and later of the Trojan hero Aeneas, son of Anchises and symbolic founder of Rome. She is also the fecundity in plant and animal nature. The dove is her bird. Her son is Eros – the Latin Cupid – capricious archer with two arrows: one for happy loves, the other for unhappy ones.