Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Aphrodite in Ares Love and War Love and Desire
Aphrodite plays a big role in the war as well helping on the Trojan side because her son Annias is a Trojan. She even gets wounded in the war which is fascinating she gets hit by an arrow and she's trying to save Annias at some point. They really all play a strong role in this Ares as well but I don't think he's on a side he just is war and so he's he's there. It again is linking these two ideas really explicitly and interestingly in the east too you know Troy is obviously modern turkey. You've got these kind of hidden sort under the surface ideas of the origin too of Aphrodite as this love and war goddess from
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