Aphrodite's title of the most beautiful goddess was confirmed in a contest. It is hardly surprising that the Greeks described Aphrodite as a young, beautiful woman with long hair and a dress that accentuates her feminine curves. She was often portrayed with an apple, shell, dove or swan.
The youngest, Psyche, possessed beauty that surpassed that of her sisters which resulted in those around her, including priests, comparing her to Aphrodite (referred to as Venus in The Golden Ass). Many went to the extent of saying that she was even fairer than the goddess herself.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Astraea (/æˈstriːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστραία, romanized: Astraía, lit. 'starry, star-like'), also spelled Astrea or Astria, is a daughter of Astraeus and Eos. She is the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity, and precision.
Three guests, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, after some disputation, agreed to have Paris of Troy choose the fairest one. Paris chose Aphrodite, she having bribed him with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus.
One day, Medusa visited the Parthenon, Athena's temple. It was decorated with beautiful sculptures and paintings dedicated to the goddess of wisdom. Everyone that visited the temple was grateful, except Medusa. When Medusa saw the sculptures, she commented that she was far more beautiful than Athena.
The gods Poseidon and Apollo (her brother and nephew respectively) both fell in love with Hestia and vied for her hand in marriage. But Hestia would have neither of them, and went to Zeus instead, and swore a great oath, that she would remain a virgin for all time and never marry.
Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, was described as having blonde hair. Did you know that Finland and Sweden has some of the highest rates of blond hair in the world?
A great king called Cinyras (in some sources known as Theias, the king of Assyria) had a daughter named Myrrha, who was very beautiful. The king used to boast about his daughter being more beautiful than Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. When Aphrodite heard of this, she became angry and decided to retaliate.
She was a beautiful maiden with particularly lovely hair who committed herself to a chaste life in order to serve as a priestess to Athena. Athena was jealous, and when she found out that Medusa and Poseidon had broken her vow of chastity she went ballistic.
In some myths, Zeus punished Aphrodite to remind her of her place and to temper her manipulative tendencies, especially when her actions threatened the balance among the gods or influenced major events like the Trojan War.
When Brahma creates Ahalya as the most beautiful being, she falls in love with Indra and longs for him, but Brahma grants her to Gautama. After Ahalya's marriage, Indra too craves for her.
Gruber and Kopelman crown Bella Hadid as the prettiest woman in the world, based on her remarkable facial symmetry, with near-perfect eye spacing and jawline proportions.
Perseus, in Greek mythology, the slayer of the Gorgon Medusa and the rescuer of Andromeda from a sea monster. Perseus was the son of Zeus and Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius of Argos.
She's almost seven feet tall—average Greek woman would be about five feet tall. He put her on a pedestal; the pedestal survives—it's about four feet tall. So, she towers, ten or eleven feet above you.
So when portraying the goddess of beauty, they applied those standards to her, giving her weight, thighs, hips and a large stomach. Finally, we turn to the modern era, and once again Aphrodite's portrayal has changed with time. In modern times, Aphrodite is shown with large breasts, a large butt, and flat stomach.
Aphrodite (/ˌæfrəˈdaɪtiː/, AF-rə-DY-tee) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom and Warfare and a member of The Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood. She is the daughter of Zeus and the half-sister of Eris, Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, Artemis, and Apollo. She is the girlfriend of Hestia.
Hestia is depicted with blue eyes and black hair tied into twin ponytails. She usually wears a white mini-dress with a blue ribbon around her collar and another tied around her waist, back and arms, which has become the character's most defining feature.
Hestia never married or had kids. Zeus granted her the right to remain an eternal virgin. In many ways she was the opposite of the goddess Aphrodite. Both Apollo and Poseidon wanted to marry Hestia, but she refused.
8. Aphrodite and Adonis. In another myth with an incestuous element, Myrrha was cursed by Aphrodite with lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyrpus, after her mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than Aphrodite.
MEDUSA AND RAPE: MORE WOMAN THAN MONSTER
Instead of blaming Neptune, Athena punishes the beautiful Medusa for the violation of her temple, and curses her by transforming her from a maiden into a monster.
Amphitrite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 (or 100) daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos.