For those who think that ancient Greece was all philosophy and marathons, a scintillating exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston proves otherwise. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Aphrodite and ...

Aphrodite has long been characterized as the goddess of love. But a traveling exhibition devoted to the Greek idol – on view through July 9 at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Getty Villa – is building on ...

The Philbrook's current exhibit, "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love," is the first museum show to focus on Aphrodite and her myriad manifestations in the art and culture of the ancient world. It was ...

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Throughout Greek antiquity, Aphrodite was worshiped as the goddess of love and beauty, pleasure and fertility. Sculptors immortalized her beguiling sensuality in marble statues found on Mount Olympus.

The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite and the Romans called her Venus. For us, today, her name evokes the idea of love, romance and erotic adventures. The new exhibition at the Getty Villa, Aphrodite and ...

Aphrodite is far more than just a simple love deity. This is the conclusion of Professor Bettany Hughes, who visited one of the proposed birthplaces of the deity — the coast of Paphos, Cyprus — in the ...

Aphrodite, known to the world as the Greek goddess of love and beauty, seems to have found her home in the Torf Gallery of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In an exhibit titled “Aphrodite and the Gods ...

Through the ages, Aphrodite's name has become synonymous with love, beauty and sex. But like most women — divine or not — the goddess was more complex than that. “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,” an ...

Tourists came from near and far to see her. Women visited to pay their respects and beseech her to fulfill their hopes and dreams, while prominent families gave offerings to her on behalf of their ...