One of the main reasons why they don't get along is due to Aphrodite's jealousy of Persephone's good looks. (Aphrodite is the Goddess of beauty afterall.) It is not a secret that one of the causes for Aphrodite's wrath is being defeated in the beauty department.
Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, heard about Psyche and her sisters and was jealous of all the attention people paid to Psyche. So she summoned her son, Eros, and told him to put a spell on Psyche. Always obedient, Eros flew down to earth with two vials of potions.
Story summary. Aphrodite makes Hades fall in love with Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the crops. He snatches her while she is picking flowers in a meadow with a nymph and takes her down to the Underworld.
Persephone's jealousy suggests she might have loved Hades
One version of Persephone's story told by the Roman poet Ovid might suggest she had grown some feelings of affection for Hades in spite of everything. In Ovid's famous text Metamorphosis, Hades has an affair with a young Nymph named Minthe.
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.
Her lovers included Ares, the god of war, and the mortal Anchises, a Trojan prince with whom she had a famous son, Aeneas. Her most famous lover, however, was the handsome and youthful mortal Adonis.
VIRGIN GODDESSES ARTEMIS, ATHENA & HESTIA. The three virgin goddesses were immune to the power of Aphrodite.
Upon meeting Psyche, Eros himself fell in love with her. He disobeyed Aphrodite and instead took Psyche to his own hidden home to be his wife. When Psyche betrayed his trust one time, Eros abandoned her.
One of the main reasons why they don't get along is due to Aphrodite's jealousy of Persephone's good looks. (Aphrodite is the Goddess of beauty afterall.) It is not a secret that one of the causes for Aphrodite's wrath is being defeated in the beauty department.
Persephone was not slow to notice, and in jealousy she trampled the nymph, killing her and turning her into a mint plant.
In the myth of Persephone and Adonis, Persephone and Aphrodite had both fallen in love with the mortal man Adonis. Zeus ordered Adonis to split his time between Aphrodite and Persephone. Adonis would spend time on the earth with Aphrodite, and then he would go to the underworld to spend time with Persephone.
Persephone & Hades
According to mythology, Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with beautiful Persephone when he saw her picking flowers one day in a meadow. The god then carried her off in his chariot to live with him in the dark Underworld.
Thus was Adonis' life divided between Aphrodite and Persephone, one goddess who loved him beneath the earth, the other above it.
Aphrodite held Adonis in her arms as he bled to death. As she cried over her beloved, her tears fell into the pools of blood around them, and they were transformed through her love: from those tears mingled with the blood there bloomed the most beautiful anemone flowers.
Though married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite's affair through Helios, the all-seeing Sun, and planned a trap during one of their trysts.
Paris chose Aphrodite, seduced by the prospect of Helen and her famed beauty. His elopement with the wife of Menelaos was the cause of the Trojan War. Two critical moments in this story are depicted on the Athenian vase shown below.
At this instant, the earth opened, and Hades came out of the crevasse on his chariot and kidnapped his niece. Demeter, mad with grief because she did not know who had abducted her daughter, went out to find her and wandered around the world for nine days and nine nights.
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Aphrodite later and of her own volition had an affair with Zeus, but his jealous wife Hera laid her hands upon the belly of the goddess and cursed their offspring with malformity. Their child was the ugly god Priapos.
But Venus [Aphrodite], angry because she had not been granted what she thought was her right, stirred the women in Thrace by love, each to seek Orpheus for herself, so that they tore him limb from limb."
Calling someone prettier than Aphrodite makes Aphrodite jealous, and she kills them. That's it.
Answer and Explanation: Aphrodite's greatest weaknesses were her vanity, jealousy, and hate of anyone considered more beautiful than herself.
While Aphrodite is only depicted with male lovers in myth, she is said to have supported same-sex relationships in Ancient Greece, such as those of the poet Sappho, who is believed to have had relationships primarily with women lovers.
Aphrodite was married to Hephaistos (Ἡφαιστος), the god of fire, smiths, and craftsmen. However, as we'll soon learn, this wasn't by her own choosing, and thus she had a longstanding affair with her true love, Ares (Αρης), The Greek god of War.
THE ILIAD : APHRODITE WOUNDED BY DIOMEDES. In the Iliad she is wounded by Diomedes while attempting to rescue her son Aeneas.