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Your Guide To The Greek Gods
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Your Guide To The Greek Gods
Aphrodite

The Romans called her: Venus

Not to be confused with: A lady razor, any Woody Allen films starring Mira Sorvino

Rank: Goddess of love, beauty and raw sexuality (phwoar!)

Played by: Serinda Swan (Percy); does not appear in Clash

Born fully grown on a wave of sea foam when the titan Cronus cut off Ouranos' (aka Uranus, snicker) genitalia and threw them in the sea, Aphrodite was even older than Zeus but never looked it. Zeus, wary of her raw sexuality and ability to cause trouble among the gods, married her off to Hephaestus, which backfired when she nevertheless carried on with Ares and Hermes. And Adonis. And Dionysus. And Anchises. Bit of a slapper all around really - but at least one of the goddesses is having it off as much as the male gods.

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1 Apollos
Posted on Monday February 8, 2010, 15:02 by kurum
Not to be confused with Apollo Creed neither. Read More
2 Medusa
Posted on Monday February 1, 2010, 12:50 by Andrew Thorne
She wasnt a god she was just a normal human punished by the gods Read More
3 Nina Young
Posted on Sunday January 31, 2010, 12:28 by Rositamay
Empire, the picture you have used of 'Nina Young' is infact a younger actress called Nina Dobrev.... Read More
4 Greek Gods
Posted on Friday January 29, 2010, 18:29 by hayhaven
Sean Bean as Zeus? Perfect. Looking forward to Percy Jackson... Read More
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