Did Aphrodite and Poseidon have a child?

POSEIDON The god of the sea had an affair with Aphrodite who was grateful for his support following the revelation of her adulterous relationship with Ares. She bore him two daughters Rhodos and Herophilos.
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Is Aphrodite the daughter of Poseidon?

In the Iliad, Aphrodite is described as the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
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Who is the father of Aphrodite's kids?

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DEIMOS The god of fear was a son of Ares and Aphrodite. EROS The winged boy god of love was a son of Aphrodite and her constant companion. (Some say the father was Ares, others that she was born pregnant with the child). EROTES The winged godlings of love were sons of Aphrodite.
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Who is the daughter of Aphrodite?

Harmonia, in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, according to the Theban account; in Samothrace she was the daughter of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra. She was carried off by Cadmus, and all the gods honoured the wedding with their presence.
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Did Ares and Aphrodite have a child?

Aphrodite had three children by Ares. Their sons, Phobus (Panic) and Deimus (Fear), became Ares' constant companions, driving his chariot on the battlefield. Their daughter Harmonia (Harmony) fell in love with the mortal Cadmus, who served her father for eight years to atone for killing a dragon sacred to Ares.
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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Who did Aphrodite sleep with?

POSEIDON The god of the sea had an affair with Aphrodite who was grateful for his support following the revelation of her adulterous relationship with Ares. She bore him two daughters Rhodos and Herophilos.
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What is Aphrodite's birth story?

The parents fought and Gaia created a stone sickle, which she gave to Cronus to attack his father. Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his father's testicles into the sea. They caused the sea to foam and out of that white foam rose Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.
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Are Aphrodite and Apollo siblings?

If she was the daughter of Zeus, her brothers and sisters include Ares, Hephaestus, Apollo, Artemis, and other Olympian gods and goddesses.
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Who did Athena fall in love with?

HEPHAESTUS LOVES : ATHENA & GAEA. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.
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Who did Poseidon fall in love?

Poseidon drew the ocean and took control of the Sea (Zeus drew the sky and Hades the Underworld). One of Poseidon's most famous deeds is the creation of the horse. There are two stories that tell how he did this. The first says that he fell in love with the goddess Demeter.
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Do Zeus and Hera have a child?

Zeus and Hera had three children together: Ares, the god of war; Hebe, a perpetually youthful beauty; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.
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How did Percy see Aphrodite?

Her beauty was such that at his first sight of her, Percy forgot his location and how to speak coherently, and he noted that when she smiled, she looked like a mixture of Annabeth and a TV actress he had a crush on in fifth grade.
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Is Cupid the son of Aphrodite?

Cupid is, quite literally, the child of the goddess of love, Venus. In Greek mythology, he is known as Eros, and, depending on the source, was thought to be a primordial god who came into the world either asexually, from an egg, or the son of Aphrodite (Venus' Hellenistic counterpart).
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Why is Athena a virgin?

Althought Athena is a virgin goddess, she mothered the god Erichthonios by Hephaestus. According to myth, she went to Hephaestus wanting some weapons forged. When Hephaestus tried to rape her, she protected her virginity and he ejaculated on her leg. She wiped it off with a piece of wool, throwing it onto the ground.
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Why was Zeus worried about Aphrodite's beauty?

Dione helps tend to Aphrodite's wounds in the story of the Trojan War. Because many of the gods were in love with Aphrodite, Zeus was afraid that a great battle would break out over her.
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Are there two aphrodites?

According to Plato, there are two Aphrodites, "the elder, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite—she is the daughter of Uranus; the younger, who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione—her we call common." The same distinction is found in Xenophon's Symposium, although the author is doubtful whether there are ...
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How did Aphrodite look like?

Appearance of Aphrodite

Aphrodite was usually depicted as a very attractive young woman who dressed elegantly and liked to wear jewelry. Her eyelashes were curved and she had a constant smile on her beautiful face. Aphrodite had a delicate neck and symbolized feminine beauty ,.
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Who was prettier than Aphrodite?

Psyche was a young princess from Sicily, famous for her extraordinary beauty. According to legend, she was even more beautiful than Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.
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Who was Aphrodite's favorite lover?

Her most famous lover, however, was the handsome and youthful mortal Adonis. Aphrodite was so attracted by his good looks that her jealous husband, Hephaestus, disguised himself as a boar and killed Adonis.
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Why did Ares seduce Aphrodite?

According to the myth of Aphrodite and Ares, the god of war fell madly in love when he met the goddess of beauty. Unlike what he did with his other lovers, he decided to win her over. He bought her gifts and complimented her constantly to gain her love.
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Who is the god of poop?

Sterculius, the Roman God of Feces.
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Who is the prettiest Greek goddess?

Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses and there are many tales of how she could encourage both Gods and humans to fall in love with her.
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Who is the god of stupidity?

In Greek mythology, Koalemos (Ancient Greek: Κοάλεμος) was the god of stupidity, mentioned once by Aristophanes, and being found also in Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Coalemus is the Latin spelling of the name.
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