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In Greek mythology, '''Aphrodite''' was the [[Greece|Greek]] [[Goddess]] of [[beauty]] and [[love]]. She was called [[Venus]] by the [[Roman]]s, after the evening [[star]] (which we know today is a [[planet]] called [[Venus]]).
In Greek mythology, '''Aphrodite''' was the [[Greece|Greek]] [[Goddess]] of [[beauty]] and [[love]].<ref name="a">{{Nuttall|Aphrodi`te}}</ref> She was called [[Venus]] by the [[Roman]]s, after the evening [[star]] (which we know today is a [[planet]] called [[Venus]]).
Aphrodite was married to [[Hephaestus]] (Vulcan), the [[blacksmith]] god but she was secretly in love with [[Ares]] (A.K.A [[Mars]]), the god of [[war]].
Aphrodite was married to [[Hephaestus]] (Vulcan), the [[blacksmith]] god.<ref name="a"/> She was also said to be secretly in love with [[Ares]] (A.K.A [[Mars]]), the god of [[war]].
Being the queen of beauty she had been given the golden apple by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.<ref name="a"/>
== See also ==
== See also ==