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Venus The Ancient Greek Woman
Even though Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, was important to the ancient Greeks, she still is today, to the people of modern society. There are two different myths about how Venus came to be. The first myth states that she came up from the sea as a fully developed woman, with Uranos being her father, and having no mother. The other myth says that she is the daughter of Jupiter, the king of the gods, and Dione. (Kamil 2). The Roman goddess Venus was so immensely beautiful, that she could start a rivalry between the gods. Jupiter married Venus to Vulcan, god of fire and crafts, because he was “ugly and not a threat.”, to avoid any major wars between the gods over Venus. Even though Venus was married to Vulcan, she was unfaithful
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