VENUS

Goddess of Love, Beauty, Fertility, Prosperity and Victory

Venus is the Roman goddess

of love, beauty, fertility,

prosperity and victory. She

was a lot of women’s patron

goddess. They prayed to her

if they wanted to be more

beautiful, have a healthy

baby, be prosperous, or win

something.

VENUS AND THE ROMAN PEOPLE

The patron deity of Pompeii was a

statue of Venus. She was fully clothed

and was wearing a crown. The frescos

and statues that have been found in

Pompeian gardens have depicted Venus

either scantily clad or in the nude.

Pompeians seem to have referred to

these nude images of Venus as Venus

fiscia; this may be from the Greek word

physike, which meant ‘related to

nature’. Venus had lots of affairs with

Roman mortals, too.

These are some Roman coins depicting Venus.

Of august gold-wreathed and

beautiful Aphrodite I shall

sing to whose domain belong

the battlements of all sea-

loved Cyprus where, blown by

the moist breath of Zephyros,

she was carried over the

waves of the resounding sea

on soft foam. The gold-filleted

Horae happily welcomed her

and clothed her with heavenly

raiment.

THE BIRTH OF VENUS

poem by Greek refugee: Demetrios Chalkokondyles.

The Romans seriously needed to stop copying the Greeks..

VENUS VS. APHRODITE

Venus Aphrodite

Basically, Venus and Aphrodite were the same, the Romans just didn’t want to look like they were copying the Greeks. (But they actually were..)

I think Venus is a very

interesting goddess. I

love learning about

history, and Roman

religion is very cool.

Venus gave the Roman

women a voice, even if it

wasn’t very strong.

MY OPINION ON VENUS