Popular conception shows her as almost universally blonde, and while that centers a certain standard of beauty, it does highlight her traditional association with gold and the sun.
Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was described as having blonde hair.
Physical Appearance. Aphrodite takes the form of a slender, beautiful woman of young age with pink skin and very long, blonde hair reaching down to her legs. She wears slight makeup consisting of deep purple eyeliner. She has blue eyes and long eyelashes standing out from the corners of her eyes.
However, it's possible that her hair was actually black, as the other goddesses also had black hair or at least an auburn color, Her eyes could be green or brown, but more likely, light ocean blue.
As a goddess of beauty, Aphrodite was usually given very white skin in both graphic and textual art. Whiteness was generally seen as a desirable part of femininity in Ancient Greek culture.
Description: Aphrodite has beautiful brown hair, sometimes straight, sometimes curly and beautiful green eyes.
Women looked up to Aphrodite, Goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility and depicted her with a round face, large breasts and a pear-shaped body.
Greek mythology depicted the folklore of The Greek Gods and Goddesses. Athena, the Goddess of wisdom and war strategy, and Aphrodite, the Goddess of beauty, love, and pleasure, were believed to be redheads.
The name Psyche means "soul" and "butterfly" in Greek and was commonly referred to as such in Roman mythology as well, though direct translation is Anima (Latin word for "soul"). She was born a mortal woman eventually granted immortality, with beauty that rivaled even Aphrodite, goddess of love.
Blondes in Mythology
Two of the Norse goddesses, Sif and Freyja were blondes. Sif was a wife of the god Thor. She was known for her golden hair and was described as the most beautiful of women.
Aphrodite is always depicted as being a beautiful, young woman. She has long hair and a garment that enhances her feminine shape.
Aphrodite's title of the most beautiful goddess was confirmed in a contest. It is hardly surprising that the Greeks described Aphrodite as a young, beautiful woman with long hair and a dress that accentuates her feminine curves. She was often portrayed with an apple, shell, dove or swan.
Both Aphrodite and Eos were known for their erotic beauty and aggressive sexuality and both had relationships with mortal lovers. Both goddesses were associated with the colors red, white, and gold.
Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.
Chronos, the god of time is usually portrayed with white hair and white beard. Chronos (also spelled Chronus) is a character in Hesiod's myth and the Orphic cosmogony.
Like other gods, Aphrodite would punish anyone, mortal or god, for slights against her. Theseus' son Hippolytus became a devotee of the virgin goddess, Artemis, and thus shunned the pleasures of the flesh. This angered Aphrodite, who felt that Hippolytus did not worship her sufficiently.
In Greek mythology, Psyche was a mortal woman whose beauty was so great that it rivaled that of the goddess Aphrodite. Aphrodite became so jealous of Psyche that she sent her son, Eros, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest man in the world.
She was depicted as a beautiful woman often accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was usually depicted nude.
It is no wonder, then, that the ancient Irish divine pantheon included a red-haired goddess. Her name was Brid. According to myth, Brid was born full-grown at sunrise in a house ablaze with light. A fiery column reached from her flame-red curls into the heavens.
Hecate's appearance is dark-haired and beautiful, but with an eerie edge to that beauty befitting a goddess of the night (though the actual goddess of the night is Nyx). Symbols of Hecate are her place, the crossroads, two torches, and black dogs.
Aphrodite has power over sexuality, love and fertility yet her personality is shy but confident.
Appearance. As the personification of beauty, Aphrodite's true appearance is actually unknown as she would appear to others as their personal epitome of physical attraction. In Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, it was confirmed that Aphrodite's appearance would change to appeal to each person who gazed upon her.
Aphroditus or Aphroditos (Greek: Ἀφρόδιτος, Aphróditos, [apʰróditos]) was a male Aphrodite originating from Amathus on the island of Cyprus and celebrated in Athens.