Yup. She is a Goddess of Love, but the thing is she embodies ALL forms of love including some of the nastier bits like infidelity. After all it's ike La Roux once said, what is love without lust?
Aphrodite seems to be easily rattled when her identity as the most beautiful of all the beautiful is questioned. Even the Greek Gods can be super insecure.
That's part of why they're such a brilliant narrative. They all act like real people, taken to the extreme because their powers and effective immortality allows them to be so.
That's why Zues was smart enough to stay away from that shit. You know he likes him some fine ladies but he knows to NEVER involve himself where vanity is concerned.
One of the most popular myths is that she was also the goddess of war in her initial existence but slowly got whittled down to just Love and Beauty with the war aspect getting taken by Ares and Athena mostly. Which is why she could get really violent and unforgiving, because she used to be War. Also explained her attraction for Ares.
For the most part Ares is pretty chill in Greek mythology, the god of war just gets a bad rep because of how he's portrayed in the media. Mind you he's not a good guy either.
@@idoitforthememes6011 I actually even recall that some sources depict Ares as sort of bumbling and idiotic as well to reflect either the Greek or Roman distaste for war at the time those depictions came to be (don't remember which). It has been some years since I studied mythology, though, so I'm not sure if that's quite right.
@@idoitforthememes6011 From what I recall, he was a bit of a butt monkey, as the Greeks saw him as the virgin to Athena's Chad. And it was the opposite with Mars and Minerva, because Romans thought he was badass. I do recall him being the one who got Sisyphus in trouble by complaining that no one was dying in battle when Tartarus got tied up. Not sure what to make of the implication that the hopelessly finite existence of the human experience can be chalked up to it having to be that way because a war god's fun would be ruined otherwise.
If her daughters take a romantic interest, without missing a beat she swoops down and sleeps with that man out of curiosity and then tells that daughter how he did after the fact
Aphrodite switching from kind and gentle to a short-tempered narcissist at the drop of a hat is kind of accurate given that she is the goddess of love.
@@adams13245 what I meant was that love is not purely good. It can make you be better than what you were without it or worse than what you were without it. With her being the goddess of love, it makes it kind of make sense that she be both, idk. Kinda cool actually
Well, when she came to Greece she was actually a goddes of war. She has a really interesting history regarding how she came to be. The greeks believed that there were 3 versions of Aphrodite and those 3 embodied each of her aspects.
One of my favorite ways to describe it is "while yes Aphrodite does have a big domain over love and beauty, she represents ALL aspects of that, the kindness and compassion of love as well as the heartbreak and pain of unrequited love etc.." and it also makes sense when you think of her as a bit more of a goddess of beauty since you could technically argue that eros is the god of love
I would've loved to have seen a woman who was so beautiful that the god of beauty herself was jealous. Imagine if someone was the god of pizza and they were jealous of the pizzeria down the street. That pizzeria must be good as hell.
Your prettier than aphrodite is an insult I've assimilated into my bag for a solid 2 years now and it's great when I see the confusion on people's faces Also if we want to get technical, it's techiniacaly thetis and pelus fault for not inviting eris to there wedding which caused her to huck the apple at athena, aphrodite, and hera, which caused the beauty contest
Aphrodite is quite generous when it comes to aiding mortals. She helped Hippomenes win his race with Atalanta in exchange for just praying at her temple.
Ok the whole golden apple thing wasn't just Aphrodite fault. First Hera bribed Paris with the continent of Euraisia as his kingdom and Athena bribed him with unbeatable battle strategies. Both of which would've ended in more bloodshed than Aphrodite's choice. Second Zeus told Paris to choose between the goddesses and Eris was the one who presented the challenge in the first place. So the Trojan war isn't entirely Aphrodite's fault. More like 20%.
It goes up to at least 40% when you realize that Athena’s battle tactics would’ve most likely been for the defense of Troy rather than offensive like Ares was more known for. From what I’ve read, the Trojans seemed to fear destruction more than anything else, so defense would’ve been perfect for them. On top of that, she would’ve given him wisdom to prevent any prophesied ruin, and wisdom in general was among the things that the Ancient Greeks treasured the most. The Trojan horse tactic she gave to Odysseus to invade Troy could possibly have been an ambush tactic that’s just as effective when fighting defense. Aphrodite offering him the love of a married woman was doomed from the start and Hera, while she might not have done that, would’ve have an equal chance of making Troy as great as the real-life Macedonian Empire or having their hides handed to them. Unfortunately, we’ll never know because Zeus apparently- according to Hesiod- rigged the game from the very beginning.
@@justin2308 With the whole Athena thing. I'm pretty sure with a strategy goddess on your side a guy like a Paris, who started a war for some pussy, would've been willing to try to conquer Greece for probably less. Hera, maybe you got a point, but she has known to honor those who are loyal to her. Maybe she would've kept her word until hubris gotten the better of Paris. I see what you mean, but 10% of the blame goes to Paris for being a dumbass, 10% for Zeus for thinking it was a good idea, 30% for Aphrodite and 50% for Eris because we all know why.
@@aurea. Hi, Hellenistic pagan here. There is no evidence of Aphrodite efforts to break Lady Hestia's chasity. There is only two myths that Queen Hestia is in: When Her father, Kronos, shallowed Her and When Piprus tried to sexually assault Her after Rhea threw an absolute baller of a party. A donkey hayed, waking Lady Hestia up and She summoned the Gods (including Aphrodite and Hades) to defend Her.
I remember when the daughter finally told someone about her obsession with her father, which happened to be her maid, the maid was disgusted and hooked her up with her dad to see if she would somehow "feel better". When the dad found out it was his daughter he was sleeping with (because dark room advantage), he chased her out and she turned out to be pregnant with her brother. In pain, she was turned into a tree and wound up having a baby boy, Adonis, who Aphrodite thought was the most beautiful man she had ever seen and fell in love with him, so she handed him off to Persephone to raise (though other versions say it was nymphs). When he got older, he went into the real world and that was when she started hitting on him . . . Drama . . . Drama . . . Drama . . . A boar killed him by stabbing Adonis in the crotch with his husks and then to Aphrodite that he wanted to kiss the beautiful man's thigh. Aphrodite then started screeching and hitting her chest in agony and it became an actual thing ancient Greek women would do while planting lots of Adonis flowers during a certain time of year. The end.
To be fair, the other two godesses (i think it was Hera and Minerva) also tried to bribe the judge and the judge (Paris) only became the judge, because Zeus couldn't be bothered to decide himself
Can't bkame Zeus, I'd be scared of choosing such thing in front of three highly dangerous woman who could and did cause a massive war because of the results of that contest
@@nicolasmouzakis650 well, I think Zeus is way more powerful and the war was started by the humans, not by the gods. You know, Paris "stole" Helena because he was bribed from Aphrodite that he would "receive" Helena if she won, the other two godesses had nothing to do with it and the war was only started because the greeks wanted Paris to give Helena back.
Just a little reminder that Greek gods are also extremely salty and jealous. A perfect example would be the myth about Arachne - a talented and arrogant seamstress who was so good at her craft that she challenged Athena to weave a better carpet than her. While arrogant, Arachne still was very talented and she won the challenge, and Athena just said “no fuck you” and turned her into a spider.
i dont think arachne was arrogant. ppl were just praising her for being the best weaver there is and the goddess caught ear of this and bcs of their pride as gods, the latter challenged arachne and lost. in conclusion, she didnt accept the outcome and cursed arachne to weave forever as an arachnid.
Actually that is a highly improbable representation. Another story states that Athena turned her into a spider, because she wove a nude,kinda pornographic tapestry of the Greek gods which Athena took offence to.
I like to think that while yes, Arahne let her pride in weaving get past herself she was not all to blame. I think a more realistic one would be that Arachne tied with Athena but Athena was offended by the tapestry that Arachne made and Arachne's claim of being better than Athena. This enraged Athena who also let her own pride as a Goddess get past herself so neither really was in the right here.
@@ashinjoy9368 they needed to depict the gods and Athena showed them blessing mortals while Arachne showed them assholes who did shit stuff which was like half their myths ex Zeus being who he is and among other stuff Athena got mad at the blatant disrespect thought "fuck you I am a goddess and ya lose so go be a new creature I made its creepy" thank you for coming to my TED talk everybody hope you liked it
Yeah well arachne wasn't exactly the smartest either she basically wove porn of athena's dad and uncle banging everything that moved sure its true but still,nobody wants to see that shit she was stupid enough to challenge a god not just any god,but the goddess who gave her the power of weaving in the first place although i agree Athena overreacted a little(a lot) but compared to other dieties Arachne got lucky
This is why I stan Hekate. As far as I know, Hekate is not only a powerful goddess/titan but she’s also one of the most merciful (if not the most reasonable) goddess in the Pantheon. And I will be forever mad at how often she is overlooked and underrated in the media. In this essay I will
Because she doesn't have any myths, fool. The only one is her cameo when she aided Demeter in her search of Persephone. Aphrodite, as the goddess of one of the most basic and powerful emotions, is going to have multiple myths.
And she made a woman fall in love with a bull. And that, kid's, is where the minotaur came from! (It was more a request by Poseidon, but...you know the drill).
@@zanyzoma3400 The gist of this is that one of Poseidon's sons was competing for the rule of Crete with his brothers, so in order to impress everyone and to get himself chosen as king, he asked Poseidon to gift him this beautiful white bull to show off to everyone. In return he promised he would sacrifice it so that Poseidon would get the bull back. Minos, now king, decided to keep the bull and sacrificed a regular bull. As you can imagine, that pissed off Poseidon, who asked Aphrodite to make Minos' wife fall in love with the bull. The bull actually rebuffed her initially, but after asking Daedalus to make her a cow suit with holes in the right places, she and said bull had a kid, which happened to be the minotaur.
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 Oh right, so that's why King Minos imprisoned Daedelus and his son Icarus, where they made wings by attaching feathers with wax, and then they flew to freedom, but Icarus, contrary to his father's warning, flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax on his wings, causing him to fall to his death.
Heres a fun fact a lot of people dont know about Aphrodite: she is the reason we have Pisces in our western zodiac. When Gaia sent Typhon to attack the gods, Aphrodite and her son were hidden away by either a pair of fish or turned to fishes themselves (depends on the myth but the fish in question is a koi fish). She "owed herSafety to the shape of the fish" and had them put in the stars as Pisces which is also why there are two fish instead of one.
I remember the Myth of Aphrodite and Psyche from school. The basic story is that Aphrodite was jealous of Psyche's beauty, so she sent Eros to make her fall in love with a monster but Eros fell in love with her instead.
Honestly Aphrodite's behavior makes sense to me. Love and Beauty are wonderful, but what are the consequences? Jealousy of anyone compared to you, Vanity from constant praise and coddling, Wrath onto the people who you perceive as upshowing you and step on everyone in order to achieve what you need. When you love someone, you feel at times and spiral into a well of terrible and nasty thoughts, unregulated it goes awry. Aphrodite is the goddess of Love and Beauty, the good and the bad.
There are no negative aspects in love, at least not in true love. The negative aspects are apart from it, and it indicates that that love is not perfect yet.
I really like this information on the Greek gods. I feel like they take on the whole aspect of their responsibility. Like beauty, it can be a vain thing as well as nice. It only makes sense that to be the goddess of love and beauty is to be cursed with the double edged sword of good and evil. Also the Roman gods, which are closely related to the Greek gods, tend to be more warlike since the people's who envisioned them were very warlike.
I really like the Daniel Black interpretation of Aphrodite being a hyper manipulative, vindictive woman who will betray you for no reason other than it is in her nature to do so. She is the person who will pretend to be a damsel in distress to get what she wants only to turn the hero into her oppressor so she can manipulate another man into "saving" her. Over and over again.
@Joe Charlemagne Well, as far as I remember, she was created by people castrating themselves and throwing it into the water. Makes sense for her to be a d*ck 😂
How about the time when a girl boasted she was more beautiful than her so she made the women of Lymnos, the entire island the girl was from, *smell so bad* their men left and remarried. And when they came back with their new wives, the old ones killed the men and sent the new wives back. The Argonauts arrived on the island years later, and after all this time without any men, they were more than welcomed.
"...and that's how the Trojan War started." You mean the war that ended with that giant wooden horse? The one that Odysseyus took a chunk of his lifetime trying to go home from?
Silver lining for that girl Aphrodite cursed: Freud somehow forgot about her and used Electra as the namesake for the other one of his Sweet Home Alabama complexes.
Apparently the namesake of Oedipus complex was less about Oedipus himself (as he killed himself over his actions) but rather tbe fascination with the play in the public sphere
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho Interesting point. I seem to recall learning in school that Freud interpreted Oedipus as subconsciously wanting to marry his mother despite hating the thought on the surface, but I guess I could see the meta interpretation being a thing as well.
@@jaschabull2365 Considering Freud said just about every reaction, from being obsessed with your complex to denying it thoughroughly meant, yes indeed, you had that complex, I think he might've had a complex defense mechanism. Or was trying to scrounge up more customers.
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Aphrodite is also technically the daughter of orness since she was born after he was chopped apart and his 'family jewels' were cask into the sea. Which also makes her a titan by extension or even a pseudo primordial (literally one of the first gods to come into existence) since orness's parents were primordials.
Orness? I think you mean Ouranos she wasn't a titan since the "Titans" weren't a race Aphrodite was the child of Ouranos and only him so she isn't a titan plus she wasn't the only child after Kronos cut up Ouranos's balls his blood spilled and created the furies,nymphs and satyrs all of whom are not titans, she's an Olympian since that was when she rose up from the sea and joined also Ouranos "parents" should just be parent since his wife Gaia(the first being to have ever been created)is also his mother(ew) so he is a primordial and one of the oldest dieties but that doesn't mean she is since she rose up from the ocean wayy to late to be a primordial
Unlike Belle Delphine, I would drink Aphrodite's bath water if it would make me a demi god. I mean a god bathed in it, it has to give me some kind of super power, right?
@@TheMythologyGuy1 Yeah that make sense. If you have before I recommend a webcomic called Lore Olympus. It's a modern retelling of the Story of Hades and Persephone. I think you will love it.
That's exactly the sort of sexist bullshit that Greek Mythology is known for, yeah. Aphrodite's a genuinely interesting cultural goddess wrapped up in a whole literary tradition of ridiculous "woman scorned" tropes.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 She has a lot in common with Ishtar (the Babylonian queen of heaven, and goddess of just about everything she could be), so I think a lot of it actually goes back further than the Greeks.
I mean the real answer to that is "the more a human is praised, the more their own value and achievements may go to their head" Which is honestly how I imagine how gods who act like humans would act.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 Yeah, I've heard most Greek men of the time were quite sexist, even compared to contemporary cultures. Though a lot of that comes from a book whos introduction praises Sparta of all places as a bastion of feminist freedom. Not "They're better than the low bar set by general Greek culture of the time." Consider that Spartan views of women sound like a feminist's nightmare; "You and your kids are property of the state. Your duty as a woman is to be as fit as possible- to bear strong Spartan babies. An inspector will be dispatched when it is heard you've given birth- and if the baby is unhealthy they'll be taken from you and exposed. No exceptions! Healthy sons are shipped off to military school before they become preteens, where they're deprived and beaten to make them tough emotionally stunted super soldiers."
Saying she bribed the judge is a little unfair when leaving out the context that the other two contestants (Hera and Athena) were also offering their own bribes of Kingly power and Military might, respectively.
She also had children who were the EMBODIMENTS OF FEAR ITSELF
I did a video about them
Mighta been Ares' influence on that count.
@@ariiadnita Fun fact about Ares’ kids
Wait is that Phobos and Deimos?
@@adamdonahue2079 ye
Love gods are never purely loving and sweet people
Except Hestia and Hephastus. They're 100% wholesome and loving.
They aren’t love gods
@@hectormackie3654 funny. I swear this comment said "gods" not "love gods"
@@knightmare3706 the original does
Yup. She is a Goddess of Love, but the thing is she embodies ALL forms of love including some of the nastier bits like infidelity.
After all it's ike La Roux once said, what is love without lust?
This is why I love Greek mythology specifically because it shows how people with godlike powers would realistically behave
Yup it's great
Like in The Boys.
same with norse mythology. even norse gods are most likely bad
I agree but sometimes hearing all the same jealous stories are quite boring.
Give it a few thousand years and you get bored, morally stunted or just straight up insane.
Aphrodite seems to be easily rattled when her identity as the most beautiful of all the beautiful is questioned. Even the Greek Gods can be super insecure.
*Especially* the Greek gods!
That's part of why they're such a brilliant narrative. They all act like real people, taken to the extreme because their powers and effective immortality allows them to be so.
Yup. The Greeks gods are meant to exemplify and do mirror human personality traits and emotions
i think greek gods are just humanised gods, it's literally how a narcisist would do.
@@tobubiify Hey, that word sounds familiar!
Image starting an ENTIRE FRICKEN WAR just because you wanted to win a beauty contest. Well now you don't have to.
Bribing a guy with the same name as the french capital be like
Dramatic as hell
To be fair Hera and Athena were as much at fault as Aphrodite.
Imagine cursing your son's girlfriend bc he decided to lie to you.
I mean at least the myth about Psyche and Eros ends well, but still
That's why Zues was smart enough to stay away from that shit. You know he likes him some fine ladies but he knows to NEVER involve himself where vanity is concerned.
"Can I seduce the door?" - Aphrodite probably.
Hello there
@@Unsc_n6 general aether
I am a bold one
Aphrodite is a bard confirmed
The door: *Kratos mode*
"Incest, am i right?"
-Aphrodite
Incest, am I right?
-all the Greek gods
@@petercooke5411 pretty much
Ironically Aphrodite is the ONLY one of the 14 primary gods and goddesses who doesn’t have to worry about incest at all. Born from sea foam.
@@goroakechi6126 the Blood of Oranous that hit the sea foam....wanna try that a again?
@@carlenecolson7204
Right, thanks for the correction.
I'm sure if aphrodite opens a Onlyfans account, there would be a nuclear war.
It'd be like the goddess version of 2001
"OH MY ZEUS IT'S FULL OF SIMPS"
Oh my god, that comment you made, it gave me a good laugh, Blitsplatsgaming.
Ngl if she actually made one. It might be the only onlyfans I ever subscribe to. How could you miss the opportunity to see an actual god.
OMG
It would be just bikini pics
I think she is the goddess of passion. Cuz she's very passionate... about everything she does. From shipping people to petty vengeance she is ALL IN!
Yes true that
You can just belive in 1 god
@@gigalife well, we **are** discussing Greek Gods and Goddess, so, there is that.
@@trinkab ye but you believe in 50 not 1
@@gigalife I do?!?? What makes you say that?
I mean she was dating Ares. She’s basically the cheerleader captain who dates the jock bully but in Olympus XD.
One of the most popular myths is that she was also the goddess of war in her initial existence but slowly got whittled down to just Love and Beauty with the war aspect getting taken by Ares and Athena mostly. Which is why she could get really violent and unforgiving, because she used to be War. Also explained her attraction for Ares.
@@rachelciel3330
It seems to be a thing that love goddesses are ironically unkind for some reason, like, look up some of the stuff Ishtar's done.
For the most part Ares is pretty chill in Greek mythology, the god of war just gets a bad rep because of how he's portrayed in the media. Mind you he's not a good guy either.
@@idoitforthememes6011 I actually even recall that some sources depict Ares as sort of bumbling and idiotic as well to reflect either the Greek or Roman distaste for war at the time those depictions came to be (don't remember which). It has been some years since I studied mythology, though, so I'm not sure if that's quite right.
@@idoitforthememes6011
From what I recall, he was a bit of a butt monkey, as the Greeks saw him as the virgin to Athena's Chad. And it was the opposite with Mars and Minerva, because Romans thought he was badass.
I do recall him being the one who got Sisyphus in trouble by complaining that no one was dying in battle when Tartarus got tied up. Not sure what to make of the implication that the hopelessly finite existence of the human experience can be chalked up to it having to be that way because a war god's fun would be ruined otherwise.
Humans: "make love not war!"
The literal god of love:
I just realized that the phrase “make love not war” is just the plot of Pocahontas
Man even god sin sin is the biggest problem ever
Also she is literally in love with the god if war
Aphrodite: What? I heard "Make love TO war."
Meanwhile the Anime named: Kaguya-sama: Love is war 🙂👁️👄👁️
"The Gods are all the same" Some Alien Kratos with a black sword
Berserk reference?
@@alomaralsulaiman6501 Actually Gorr but I did not know Beserk made a similar reference. Thank you lol
"Call... the axe..."
@Cybat789 Wouldn’t put it past Miura. He’s known to make really esoteric references.
@@LandSharkCorner Gorr ze God Butcher
If her daughters take a romantic interest, without missing a beat she swoops down and sleeps with that man out of curiosity and then tells that daughter how he did after the fact
see that's one I've never heard before
Well, you need to know that your daughters will be satisfied! What else are you supposed to do? Trust their judgement?!
@@solunarabbits85 ...👀
@@solunarabbits85 spoken like Aphrodite herself
Lord Sixth
Aphrodite switching from kind and gentle to a short-tempered narcissist at the drop of a hat is kind of accurate given that she is the goddess of love.
Do you mean lust/ infatuation? Cause there are forms of love that aren't psychotically vain and jealous.
@@adams13245 what I meant was that love is not purely good. It can make you be better than what you were without it or worse than what you were without it. With her being the goddess of love, it makes it kind of make sense that she be both, idk. Kinda cool actually
Nephilim
@@leapfrog7099 i agree, the greeks were all about logic and seeing all sides so it's fascinating to see how they do that with their deities.
Some girl: has a crush on her dad
The girl: ‘Nah that’s Aphrodite’
Aphrodite is the most inconsistent god I swear.
She's just a two faced bitch, I'm sure we've all met someone like that in our lives
So is the Nature of love.
As inconsistent as human relationships, so it's quite accurate representation I must say.
Well, when she came to Greece she was actually a goddes of war. She has a really interesting history regarding how she came to be. The greeks believed that there were 3 versions of Aphrodite and those 3 embodied each of her aspects.
athena: *sneezes in olympus*
I feel sorry for Aeneas being her son, especially with all the 'your mother' jokes that his fellow soldiers must have made.
Oh dear
Isn't telling a Yo Mama joke to the offspring of a deity asking to be smote?
Yo mama so petty, she has to sleep with all of her daughters lovers to make sure they don't have ED alright
@@jaschabull2365 worth it.
@@jaschabull2365 I suppose he did have the last laugh by being one of the only Trojans who didn't suffer some horrible fate.
"Some people might thin she is a kind and caring woman"
I just started laughing
Say you never met a woman without saying you never met a woman! 😂😂😂
Aphrodite was rivaled only by Zeus and Hera in the “royally screwing up the lives of innocent people” portion of the Greek pantheon
Sounds like a perfect match for the god of war
huh. Kratos disagrees lol
@@edmardisla8492 A mini game proves both points
@Daniel Veas Sánchez god of war*
with Kratos around. *Gods* turn into *God.*
If you mean Ares, then they are a thing.
God of smithing begs to differ.
One of my favorite ways to describe it is "while yes Aphrodite does have a big domain over love and beauty, she represents ALL aspects of that, the kindness and compassion of love as well as the heartbreak and pain of unrequited love etc.." and it also makes sense when you think of her as a bit more of a goddess of beauty since you could technically argue that eros is the god of love
“People just assume she’s a loving, caring, kind woman”
PFFFT
“Loving, caring and kind” is the last thing you’d say about Aphrodite.
i mean, she loves eros. a lot. a little too much. just a bit.
Love does some weird shit, so I guess it weirdly makes a lot of sense.
I would've loved to have seen a woman who was so beautiful that the god of beauty herself was jealous. Imagine if someone was the god of pizza and they were jealous of the pizzeria down the street. That pizzeria must be good as hell.
Bruh senior white or any Chinese novels
Ever heard of Psyche.
@@gogo_zeppeli3759 senior white 2 is better.
Now I want a slice of that pizza
Definitely gonna be freddy fazbear's pizzeria
As someone who learns about the Greek deities, I can confirm that this is accurate and truthful, no lies about it
You heard it here folks!
@@TheMythologyGuy1 YAAAAAASSSS!!!!
ALL ACCURACY BE HERE!!!!
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Aphrodite: “And I took that personally”
"she offered the hand of an already married woman"
Me who is Greek and has had a hole subject about the Troy war: never thought of it like that
Me who's played Hades and decided to choose Dionysus's blessing instead of hers: *oh boy I know*
Aahh.... I see you're a man of culture as well.
Ooh, I see we have a man of- damn. somebody beat me to it.
I swear she also made Medusa turn E
People to stone because she was so pretty that even Poseidon liked her
@Blastain Jaeger it's a reference to the game Hades, Aphrodite kills you if you don't accept her gift
Man of culture I see?
*someone slightly wrongs Aphrodite*
Aphrodite: looks like someone has a bull fetish now
That one mother: HA, my daughter is more beatiful than Aphrodite herself!
The daugher: Why do i feel like im being cursed
imagine being jealous of other girls even though you’re a goddamn goddess of love and beauty. the irony
@C.C yeah ALL wome-
Wait…AM I A WOMAN ANYMORE?!??!
Facts, she's crazy
@C.C
True, it gets insane tbh. Competition never stops even when it's obviously not an issue
Women ☕️
Imagine hating black people. the irony
Aphrodite can be very ruthless at time. i guess the fact that she used to be a war goddess leaksbout every once in a while
“There are no good gods boy.”
-A wise Spartan philosopher
Kratos: at least someone listens to me
Zeus: fu*k you Kratos
I mean Kratos spent enough time with Aphrodite that you could've fooled me
The best one kidnapped his wife and talks to four other people tops.
What about hestia?
@@willow4605 goddess.
Your prettier than aphrodite is an insult I've assimilated into my bag for a solid 2 years now and it's great when I see the confusion on people's faces
Also if we want to get technical, it's techiniacaly thetis and pelus fault for not inviting eris to there wedding which caused her to huck the apple at athena, aphrodite, and hera, which caused the beauty contest
Wait a minute, did the Trojan war start for the same reason the entire plot of Sleeping Beauty did?
Yea but no one’s gonna invite the goddess of discord & strife to their wedding
Yeah but Eris is always looking to start up shit
which caused the death of their son
Why is that an insult
I'm more curious as to what her good moments are, because I have heard none of them
I guess bringing Galatea to life counts...
Aphrodite is quite generous when it comes to aiding mortals. She helped Hippomenes win his race with Atalanta in exchange for just praying at her temple.
Ok the whole golden apple thing wasn't just Aphrodite fault. First Hera bribed Paris with the continent of Euraisia as his kingdom and Athena bribed him with unbeatable battle strategies. Both of which would've ended in more bloodshed than Aphrodite's choice. Second Zeus told Paris to choose between the goddesses and Eris was the one who presented the challenge in the first place. So the Trojan war isn't entirely Aphrodite's fault. More like 20%.
It goes up to at least 40% when you realize that Athena’s battle tactics would’ve most likely been for the defense of Troy rather than offensive like Ares was more known for. From what I’ve read, the Trojans seemed to fear destruction more than anything else, so defense would’ve been perfect for them. On top of that, she would’ve given him wisdom to prevent any prophesied ruin, and wisdom in general was among the things that the Ancient Greeks treasured the most. The Trojan horse tactic she gave to Odysseus to invade Troy could possibly have been an ambush tactic that’s just as effective when fighting defense.
Aphrodite offering him the love of a married woman was doomed from the start and Hera, while she might not have done that, would’ve have an equal chance of making Troy as great as the real-life Macedonian Empire or having their hides handed to them. Unfortunately, we’ll never know because Zeus apparently- according to Hesiod- rigged the game from the very beginning.
@@justin2308 With the whole Athena thing. I'm pretty sure with a strategy goddess on your side a guy like a Paris, who started a war for some pussy, would've been willing to try to conquer Greece for probably less. Hera, maybe you got a point, but she has known to honor those who are loyal to her. Maybe she would've kept her word until hubris gotten the better of Paris. I see what you mean, but 10% of the blame goes to Paris for being a dumbass, 10% for Zeus for thinking it was a good idea, 30% for Aphrodite and 50% for Eris because we all know why.
Wait, so reading this... He gave up Eurasia, as in Europe and Asia, for a woman who was already married? Wow
@@MoronBoshi yup.
@Dragon Lord wow, simphood goes quite far back in time. Assuming it all really happened of course
"....so aprodite punished her daughter by giving her an insatiable lust for her father..."
so she is ALABAMA goddess after all
Tf what
Sweet home Alabama, baby
Yup.
She punished the daughter of the mother that bragged about beauty, she wasn't Aphrodite's daughter (if I understood correctly)
@@Micaerys Doesn't Aphrodite seems to be the one who brags about her beauty (Wink Wink)
"But in the end of the day, Aphrodite aint, no saint."
Sir you best better watch out.
She also has a grudge against artemis' followers for not being in romantic or sexual relationships
Exactly. I think she despised chastity in general, and even tried to make Hestia break her vow, which thankfully didn't work.
@@aurea. Thank god, Hestia is the oldest and wisest of them all.
@@aurea. Hi, Hellenistic pagan here.
There is no evidence of Aphrodite efforts to break Lady Hestia's chasity.
There is only two myths that Queen Hestia is in:
When Her father, Kronos, shallowed Her and
When Piprus tried to sexually assault Her after Rhea threw an absolute baller of a party.
A donkey hayed, waking Lady Hestia up and She summoned the Gods (including Aphrodite and Hades) to defend Her.
I remember when the daughter finally told someone about her obsession with her father, which happened to be her maid, the maid was disgusted and hooked her up with her dad to see if she would somehow "feel better". When the dad found out it was his daughter he was sleeping with (because dark room advantage), he chased her out and she turned out to be pregnant with her brother. In pain, she was turned into a tree and wound up having a baby boy, Adonis, who Aphrodite thought was the most beautiful man she had ever seen and fell in love with him, so she handed him off to Persephone to raise (though other versions say it was nymphs). When he got older, he went into the real world and that was when she started hitting on him . . . Drama . . . Drama . . . Drama . . . A boar killed him by stabbing Adonis in the crotch with his husks and then to Aphrodite that he wanted to kiss the beautiful man's thigh. Aphrodite then started screeching and hitting her chest in agony and it became an actual thing ancient Greek women would do while planting lots of Adonis flowers during a certain time of year.
The end.
WHAT
@@kshiprabhandari same lol
Bruh
What the fuck.
Oh yeah I remember that story
She is the goddess of love. And above all she loves herself
To be fair, the other two godesses (i think it was Hera and Minerva) also tried to bribe the judge and the judge (Paris) only became the judge, because Zeus couldn't be bothered to decide himself
Hera and *Athena*, Minerva is her Roman counterpart.
@@groggyowl6871 he was still technically right
Can't bkame Zeus, I'd be scared of choosing such thing in front of three highly dangerous woman who could and did cause a massive war because of the results of that contest
@@nicolasmouzakis650 well, I think Zeus is way more powerful and the war was started by the humans, not by the gods. You know, Paris "stole" Helena because he was bribed from Aphrodite that he would "receive" Helena if she won, the other two godesses had nothing to do with it and the war was only started because the greeks wanted Paris to give Helena back.
@@nintendogamer1926 to be honest yeah the humans really started it
Just a little reminder that Greek gods are also extremely salty and jealous. A perfect example would be the myth about Arachne - a talented and arrogant seamstress who was so good at her craft that she challenged Athena to weave a better carpet than her. While arrogant, Arachne still was very talented and she won the challenge, and Athena just said “no fuck you” and turned her into a spider.
i dont think arachne was arrogant. ppl were just praising her for being the best weaver there is and the goddess caught ear of this and bcs of their pride as gods, the latter challenged arachne and lost. in conclusion, she didnt accept the outcome and cursed arachne to weave forever as an arachnid.
Actually that is a highly improbable representation. Another story states that Athena turned her into a spider, because she wove a nude,kinda pornographic tapestry of the Greek gods which Athena took offence to.
I like to think that while yes, Arahne let her pride in weaving get past herself she was not all to blame. I think a more realistic one would be that Arachne tied with Athena but Athena was offended by the tapestry that Arachne made and Arachne's claim of being better than Athena. This enraged Athena who also let her own pride as a Goddess get past herself so neither really was in the right here.
@@ashinjoy9368 they needed to depict the gods and Athena showed them blessing mortals while Arachne showed them assholes who did shit stuff which was like half their myths ex Zeus being who he is and among other stuff Athena got mad at the blatant disrespect thought "fuck you I am a goddess and ya lose so go be a new creature I made its creepy" thank you for coming to my TED talk everybody hope you liked it
Yeah well arachne wasn't exactly the smartest either she basically wove porn of athena's dad and uncle banging everything that moved sure its true but still,nobody wants to see that shit she was stupid enough to challenge a god not just any god,but the goddess who gave her the power of weaving in the first place although i agree Athena overreacted a little(a lot) but compared to other dieties Arachne got lucky
Already knew these tales, but always glad to see these kinda videos out in the wild.
This is why I stan Hekate. As far as I know, Hekate is not only a powerful goddess/titan but she’s also one of the most merciful (if not the most reasonable) goddess in the Pantheon.
And I will be forever mad at how often she is overlooked and underrated in the media.
In this essay I will
The exact same for me, but with Hestia!
Because she doesn't have any myths, fool.
The only one is her cameo when she aided Demeter in her search of Persephone.
Aphrodite, as the goddess of one of the most basic and powerful emotions, is going to have multiple myths.
In some beliefs she is actually Aphrodite's mother, since she is also known as "Dion."
The exact same for me but with Apollo
@@Undisputed_Dragonthere is also the myth where Aphrodite has no mother.
Can you tell the bedtime story of how the Minotaur was created? I somehow think it’s related :)
But posidon was the one who cursed pasiphae
@@Lelhanma he made Aphrodite do it
And she made a woman fall in love with a bull. And that, kid's, is where the minotaur came from!
(It was more a request by Poseidon, but...you know the drill).
𝖧𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗈𝗇 𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗈𝗇 𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗈𝗇....𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩?
@@zanyzoma3400 The gist of this is that one of Poseidon's sons was competing for the rule of Crete with his brothers, so in order to impress everyone and to get himself chosen as king, he asked Poseidon to gift him this beautiful white bull to show off to everyone. In return he promised he would sacrifice it so that Poseidon would get the bull back. Minos, now king, decided to keep the bull and sacrificed a regular bull.
As you can imagine, that pissed off Poseidon, who asked Aphrodite to make Minos' wife fall in love with the bull. The bull actually rebuffed her initially, but after asking Daedalus to make her a cow suit with holes in the right places, she and said bull had a kid, which happened to be the minotaur.
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 >cow suit with holes in the right places
What the fu-
@@huzai7083 wait until u will hear how many animels ducked loki in norse mythiolgy
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 Oh right, so that's why King Minos imprisoned Daedelus and his son Icarus, where they made wings by attaching feathers with wax, and then they flew to freedom, but Icarus, contrary to his father's warning, flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax on his wings, causing him to fall to his death.
Heres a fun fact a lot of people dont know about Aphrodite: she is the reason we have Pisces in our western zodiac. When Gaia sent Typhon to attack the gods, Aphrodite and her son were hidden away by either a pair of fish or turned to fishes themselves (depends on the myth but the fish in question is a koi fish). She "owed herSafety to the shape of the fish" and had them put in the stars as Pisces which is also why there are two fish instead of one.
I remember the Myth of Aphrodite and Psyche from school. The basic story is that Aphrodite was jealous of Psyche's beauty, so she sent Eros to make her fall in love with a monster but Eros fell in love with her instead.
Honestly Aphrodite's behavior makes sense to me. Love and Beauty are wonderful, but what are the consequences? Jealousy of anyone compared to you, Vanity from constant praise and coddling, Wrath onto the people who you perceive as upshowing you and step on everyone in order to achieve what you need. When you love someone, you feel at times and spiral into a well of terrible and nasty thoughts, unregulated it goes awry. Aphrodite is the goddess of Love and Beauty, the good and the bad.
Mostly bad though 😒
i love how the embodiments of love in greek mythology include the negative aspects of love in addition to the positive aspects. i find it very poetic.
There are no negative aspects in love, at least not in true love. The negative aspects are apart from it, and it indicates that that love is not perfect yet.
@@1Capybara24 your an idiot if you believe that. even if it IS true love there are negative aspects.
your right and I agree with you. the Greeks never shied away from the world.
You got me back into lore so I bought Fenix Rising. Was super awesome, and also makes this make more sense haha
“Aphrodite, heh sounds like my ex”
Pygmalion: I wish my waifu was real
Aphrodite: I got you, buddy
I really like this information on the Greek gods. I feel like they take on the whole aspect of their responsibility. Like beauty, it can be a vain thing as well as nice. It only makes sense that to be the goddess of love and beauty is to be cursed with the double edged sword of good and evil.
Also the Roman gods, which are closely related to the Greek gods, tend to be more warlike since the people's who envisioned them were very warlike.
“But the Greek gods have a tendency of doing really messed up things”
Chronus. That’s all I’m gonna say.
*Kronos
@@homelaptop8641 the actual spelling is chronus
@@thecommentguy9380 No it's Kronos.
@@homelaptop8641 Thanks for spelling it right.
@@thecommentguy9380 no kronos is the king of the titans, chronus is the primordial god of time
Aphrodite isn't really a godess of love, more like sex, lust, and desire.
She goddess of all that love is like a umbrella term for it all jealous love, unrequited love, homosexual love all that stuff
@@roseforest8950 Yes, Aphrodite is the goddess of *all* love; from romantic desire to a love of food, from sexual to a love of pets.
That's Hera
@@colt9836 Bruh, I read that last part so wrong at first and got scared lmao
Pretty sure Hera’s the goddess of marriage
Lust for her father part made me think "sweet home Alabama"
I really like the Daniel Black interpretation of Aphrodite being a hyper manipulative, vindictive woman who will betray you for no reason other than it is in her nature to do so. She is the person who will pretend to be a damsel in distress to get what she wants only to turn the hero into her oppressor so she can manipulate another man into "saving" her. Over and over again.
@Joe Charlemagne Well, as far as I remember, she was created by people castrating themselves and throwing it into the water. Makes sense for her to be a d*ck 😂
Sounds like Daniel Black has some underlying issues he needs to address.
How about the time when a girl boasted she was more beautiful than her so she made the women of Lymnos, the entire island the girl was from, *smell so bad* their men left and remarried. And when they came back with their new wives, the old ones killed the men and sent the new wives back.
The Argonauts arrived on the island years later, and after all this time without any men, they were more than welcomed.
Nice hair cut dude! And thanks for the super cool video 😎
Auctally I was told it started over her wanting a golden apple that said " to the fairest"
Yeah. And Fairest means most beautiful. So in her vain mind it's a beauty contest.
"...and that's how the Trojan War started."
You mean the war that ended with that giant wooden horse? The one that Odysseyus took a chunk of his lifetime trying to go home from?
Who would've thought gods that act like humans have a god complex
Silver lining for that girl Aphrodite cursed: Freud somehow forgot about her and used Electra as the namesake for the other one of his Sweet Home Alabama complexes.
Apparently the namesake of Oedipus complex was less about Oedipus himself (as he killed himself over his actions) but rather tbe fascination with the play in the public sphere
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho
Interesting point. I seem to recall learning in school that Freud interpreted Oedipus as subconsciously wanting to marry his mother despite hating the thought on the surface, but I guess I could see the meta interpretation being a thing as well.
@@jaschabull2365 Considering Freud said just about every reaction, from being obsessed with your complex to denying it thoughroughly meant, yes indeed, you had that complex, I think he might've had a complex defense mechanism. Or was trying to scrounge up more customers.
Video Idea:Even Even More Zeus Pickup Techniques
Zeus:Hey Look At That Piece Of Art
Hades:ZEUS WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS
Zeus:Because I Like It Hades Hey Hottie
Kratos' Mother:(Confused)
Zeus:(Transforms Into A Turtle)
This is Greek mythology, I never thought that
Well, she represents all aspects of love, including jealousy and unrequited love that turns into hatred.
The more I watch videos like this, the more I feel thankful of Kratos for putting an end to the most insecure creatures to ever exist in mythology.
Gotta agree with you there!
You do know that Aphrodite was among the few Gods that Kratos didn't kill, right?
"gave irresistible lust for her own father"
Boys we found out the first ancestor of doujin writers
I didn't get it but okay.
Yup
Not this one. Tragedic.
@@kimberlypascua8020 tragic*but yeah I agree.
Electra Complex
Aphrodite is also technically the daughter of orness since she was born after he was chopped apart and his 'family jewels' were cask into the sea. Which also makes her a titan by extension or even a pseudo primordial (literally one of the first gods to come into existence) since orness's parents were primordials.
Orness? I think you mean Ouranos she wasn't a titan since the "Titans" weren't a race Aphrodite was the child of Ouranos and only him so she isn't a titan plus she wasn't the only child after Kronos cut up Ouranos's balls his blood spilled and created the furies,nymphs and satyrs all of whom are not titans, she's an Olympian since that was when she rose up from the sea and joined also Ouranos "parents" should just be parent since his wife Gaia(the first being to have ever been created)is also his mother(ew) so he is a primordial and one of the oldest dieties but that doesn't mean she is since she rose up from the ocean wayy to late to be a primordial
Father: Hmmp! My daughter is more beautiful than Aphrodite.
Aphrodite: *Incest it is then*
Aphrodite: let me introduce you to your new home "Sweet home Alabama b*tches"
@@angelrespoy2152 I doubt incest means anything to her considering she lives in Mt Olympus
Bruhhh 😱🤢🤢🤢
She will ship anyone she thinks look good together
Aphrodite is the bell delphine of the greek gods
You may be right there
@@TheMythologyGuy1 Yeah I can just imagine it lol
Unlike Belle Delphine, I would drink Aphrodite's bath water if it would make me a demi god.
I mean a god bathed in it, it has to give me some kind of super power, right?
Forgetting the fact that later from that curse union of father and daughter. Created Adonis... Her lover.
These fun facts are truly what yt shorts are for. Love finding these.
*rapidly teleports from left to right side of the screen while telling murder stories*
Hey, you should see her kids... I don’t think I’ve ever quite so despised someone as much as I did Drew... Maybe Professor Umbridge.
Yeah Drew is annoying
Both are bad, Umbridge is worse tho
I never thought Aphrodite was kind nor graceful but thanks for the facts none the less.
Goddess of the streets
You forgot the part where she cast a spell on Pasiphae to fall in love with the Cretan Bull and mated with it.
Not gonna lie, I was expecting him to bring up her birth. If you know, you know😂
"girl you are like Aphrodite"
"so you calling me a bitch?"
"precisely"
She did it for the alabama meme but there were no social media back then, just the society
Me: "I am prettier then aphrodite"
Aphrodite: bye
So the goddess of beauty is so vain af but is also insecure...
Apparently
@@TheMythologyGuy1 Yeah that make sense. If you have before I recommend a webcomic called Lore Olympus. It's a modern retelling of the Story of Hades and Persephone. I think you will love it.
“Loving, caring, kind woman.”
Me, who knows that she helped start the Trojan war: *bursts out laughing*
I feel like there’s a love triangle between her with Hephaestus and Ares for some reason.
“Hey hun, how’s it going? What are you doing, *what are you doing* “
I can imagine that Aphrodite's curse was Roman explanation for why hot women tend to be crazy.
That's exactly the sort of sexist bullshit that Greek Mythology is known for, yeah. Aphrodite's a genuinely interesting cultural goddess wrapped up in a whole literary tradition of ridiculous "woman scorned" tropes.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 Presumably by a culture wrought in Pederasty. The Greeks, namely.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 She has a lot in common with Ishtar (the Babylonian queen of heaven, and goddess of just about everything she could be), so I think a lot of it actually goes back further than the Greeks.
I mean the real answer to that is "the more a human is praised, the more their own value and achievements may go to their head"
Which is honestly how I imagine how gods who act like humans would act.
@@clockworkkirlia7475
Yeah, I've heard most Greek men of the time were quite sexist, even compared to contemporary cultures. Though a lot of that comes from a book whos introduction praises Sparta of all places as a bastion of feminist freedom. Not "They're better than the low bar set by general Greek culture of the time." Consider that Spartan views of women sound like a feminist's nightmare; "You and your kids are property of the state. Your duty as a woman is to be as fit as possible- to bear strong Spartan babies. An inspector will be dispatched when it is heard you've given birth- and if the baby is unhealthy they'll be taken from you and exposed. No exceptions! Healthy sons are shipped off to military school before they become preteens, where they're deprived and beaten to make them tough emotionally stunted super soldiers."
"ATHENA YOU WILL SUFFER FIR THIS"-
Some guy with very very white skin
Well, she did make Pygmalion's WAIFU come to life
The way that I said “ew” at the same time with him. ✨connection✨
Mother: my daughter is way more beautiful than Aphrodite
Aphrodite:And i took that personally
This guy got popular over 2 days and I admire that
I wonder how long it took him to come up with that closing line😂😂😂
Surprisingly it popped into my head almost immediately
Well kudos to you it made it all the better
Ah, I’m glad I live now, and not back then.
Saying she bribed the judge is a little unfair when leaving out the context that the other two contestants (Hera and Athena) were also offering their own bribes of Kingly power and Military might, respectively.
Well it's still better than giving a hand of a married women tbh
Not to mention her disrespect towards marriage where Zeus rewarded Hephaestus with her hand in marriage for his work, she cheated on him with Ares
Well Hephaestus was really kind for her, because he wanted that she will be happy, so he just didn't keep her.