Aphrodite: Goddess of Love

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology.

Her origin story is one of the more colourful ones, being born from the foam of Uranus’s castrated genitals. Her life is no less dramatic, and one where love and war are intimately connected. She is unhappily married to the son of Zeus and Hera, Hephaestus, yet carries on her affair with Ares, God of War, and her competitive relationship with Hera and Athena results in the beginning of the Trojan War. In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by host of the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast, Liv Albert. Together they discuss Aphrodite’s origin in both myth and what she shares with warrior goddesses from other ancient cultures, as well as her most famous myths, and how she’s become one of the most iconic deities history has ever known.

The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie

Script written by Andrew Hulse

Voice over performed by Nichola Woolley

The Assistant Producer was Annie Coloe

Edited by Aidan Lonergan

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0:45.9	Sing, muses, sing to me a story of Olympus and the death of Scots who govern Earth,
0:51.6	Sea and Sky.
0:52.8	That is Helen's plea as she stands upon the highest hour of Troy.
0:58.1	She wishes to hear the story of her flight from Greece, of the war that ensued.
1:04.2	In its recitation, she seeks punishment.
1:08.0	For she and her lover Paris have brought this ancient city to its destruction.
1:14.0	10,000 Greeks spill into the streets beneath her.
1:19.1	They are a deluge of flame and the embers rising from their savage work write new constellations into the night sky.
1:28.6	But it is not the muses that company of sisters that come to Helen.
1:34.1	It is a lone goddess who appears upon the battlements. Her beauty is unforgiving, uncompromising.
1:42.8	It is a perfection that befits marble, not flesh.
1:50.6	Indeed, when she wipes a tear from Helen's rosy cheek, her touch is the cold kiss of stone.
1:58.0	It is flawless, affidity, goddess of love, and the story she comes to tell is her own.
2:15.2	It's the entrance from History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host.
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