Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Aphrodite and the Homeric Hymns
The sources I've mentioned are all very early particularly Aphrodite it plays his most prominent role in in the Homeric epic so the elite and the Odyssey. The one two Aphrodite they are all kind of attributed to were probably written down for preservation in the archaic period possibly late archaic but they are almost certainly considerably olderprobably you know iron age i.e. the time when people sometimes call it the dark ages. In terms of written works and the stories really specifically they all tend to come from these archaic sources at least in the ones i've talked about.
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