Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty her symbols are mertle, sceptre, and a dove. Aphrodite held great power over mortals and immotals, but that did not meen she could not get hurt by love.Aphrodite often relations with both gods and mortals, so she was subjected to the pain of love. There are two beleifs on how Aphrodite was born. One of those beleifs was that that she was the daughter of Zeus and …
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…island that would let her give birth to both of the twins Apollo and Artemis. This island was Delos in honor of this moment. Near Delphi, Apollo encountered and killed the enormous serpent Python (the god's priestess was named Pythia to commemorate this event). Both Apollo and his sister Artemis punished Tityus and Niobe for revenge, because they had made insulted there mother Leto. But Apollo was not only a fighter but also a lover.