Aphrodite
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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victor
The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy (torso and thighs) with restored head, arms, legs and drapery support
Late second-millennium BC nude figurine of Ishtar from Susa, showing her wearing a crown and clutching her breasts
Early fifth-century BC statue of Aphrodite from Cyprus, showing her wearing a cylinder crown and holding a dove
Aphrodite Ourania, draped rather than nude, with her foot resting on a tortoise (Louvre)
Eros
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Eros is the Greek god of love and sex. The Romans referred to him as Cupid or Amor. In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is the child of Aphrodite.
Aphrodite
…to men. Such strophia were commonly used in depictions of the Near Eastern goddesses Ishtar and Atargatis. Aphrodite is almost always accompanied by Eros, the god of lust and sexual desire. In his Theogony, Hesiod describes Eros as one of the four original primeval forces born at the beginning of time…
The Eros Farnese, a Pompeiian marble thought to be a copy of the colossal Eros of Thespiae by Praxiteles
Etruscan or Greek mirror with an engraved depiction of Eros with lyre
Winged eros with toy cart, National Archaeological museum, Athens
Psyche et L'Amour (1889) by William Bouguereau.