Venus, the Roman goddess of love, originally an Old World vegetation goddess, protector of gardens and vineyards, was later identified with the Greek Aphrodite.
According to one of the earliest Greek poets, Hesiod (8th century BC), Aphrodite, which is the Greek name for Venus, was born from the sea - from the foam produced by the genitals of the castrated Uranus when they were thrown into the sea. She floated ashore on a shell, propelled by a gentle breeze, and finally landed at Paphos in Cyprus, one of the principal places of her worship in ancient times. Her Greek name, Aphrodite, was derived from aphros, foam. The type of 'Venus Anadyomene' (she who rises from the sea), which depicts her standing while wringing the water out of her hair, is known from the classical
Painting by an artist close to Peter Paul Rubens, a Southern Dutch painter of Flemish Baroque from Antwerp, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium of the 16th and 17th century, and is presumed to originate from a lost work by the painter Apelles.
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