Aphrodites is the goddess of love. She is also the daughter of poseidon. One day she arose from the ocean and had been nude but magicaly a shroud of foam had surrounded her body. The poet
Hesiod said that Aphrodite was born from sea-foam. Homer, on the other hand, said that she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
When the Trojan prince Paris was asked to judge which of three Olympian goddesses was the most beautiful, he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Athena. The latter two had hoped to bribe him with power and victory
in battle, but Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.
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