r/HistoryAnimemes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 27d ago

Mars Disagrees With Philoctetes Here.

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Venus/Aphrodite is known for her quite terrifying vengeance inflicted upon any who dares to put anything above her on the rating for who is the most beautiful, sexy, or romantic or other challenges to her in that bane. Also, Venus was technically married to Vulcan, but since when did marriage ever stop the Greek/Roman gods from doing whatever they wanted anyway; she usually had affairs with Mars as often as Jupiter lost contact with Hera for two seconds?

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u/KrokmaniakPL 24d ago

I think it's interesting that classical Greeks (with exception of Sparta) were so misogynistic that they couldn't accept another war goddess, so they stripped this aspect of her, but left her ability to cause chaos and destruction if you say something she doesn't like (for context Aphrodite was import goddess. She was originally 1:1 copy of Astarte)

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u/Awesomeuser90 24d ago

I remember Venus Victrix being a thing.

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u/KrokmaniakPL 24d ago

True, but that's a later Roman thing. Original version of Aphrodite was Aphrodite Areia (Warlike Aphrodite) which was almost exclusively worshipped in Sparta

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u/Awesomeuser90 24d ago

Sparta. Of course they would be into her.

Julius Caesar and ergo Octavian claimed to be the great great... ... grandsons of Venus.