Aphrodite - Aphrodite (English spelling)

Japanese: アフロディテ - あふろでぃて(英語表記)Aphrodītē
Aphrodite - Aphrodite (English spelling)

In Greek mythology, she is the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. She is considered to be the same as the later Roman god Venus. According to Homer, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione and the mother of the god of love, Eros. However, according to Hesiod, she was born from the sea foam (afros) that gathered around the phallus of Uranus, which had been severed by Cronus.

Aphrodite was born from a bubble and was carried by the west wind from Cythera to Cyprus, where she was dressed by the goddesses of the seasons and taken to the gods. Aphrodite married Hephaestus, the god of fire and blacksmithing, and secretly loved Ares, the god of war. In Homer's Iliad, she supports the Trojans, and in the Odyssey, she is caught in her husband's trap and disgraced in front of the gods. She gave birth to children such as Eros and Anteros with Ares. Aphrodite also had relationships with gods such as Dionysus, Hermes, and Poseidon, but she also had love affairs with humans such as Anchises and Adonis, and the hero Aeneas was born to the Trojan Anchises. After the fall of Troy, her son founded Rome, and the goddess was worshiped as the mother goddess of the Romans. Aphrodite's symbol is passion, the source of all living things, and therefore all feminine beauty and charm is embodied in the form of the goddess.

[Masahiro Ogawa]

[Reference] | Venus

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ギリシア神話の愛と美と豊穣(ほうじょう)の女神。後のローマ神ビーナス(ウェヌス)と同一視されている。ホメロスによれば、ゼウスとディオネの娘であり、愛神エロスの母とされているが、ヘシオドスによれば、クロノスによって切断されたウラノスの男根の周りに集まった海の泡(アフロス)から誕生したとされている。

 アフロディテは水泡から生まれると、西風に運ばれてキテラからキプロスに行き、そこで季節の女神たちに衣を着せられて神々のところへ導かれた。アフロディテは火と鍛冶(かじ)の神ヘファイストスを夫とし、軍神アレスとひそかに愛しあった。ホメロスの『イリアス』では、彼女はトロヤ方を援助し、『オデュッセイア』では、アレスとの密会をヘファイストスに見破られ、夫の網にかかって神々の前で醜態を演ずる。アレスとの間には、エロス、アンテロスなどの子が生まれた。またアフロディテは、ディオニソス、ヘルメス、ポセイドンなどの神々とも交わったが、アンキセス、アドニスら人間との恋愛話もあり、トロヤ人アンキセスとの間には英雄アイネイアスが誕生している。トロヤ陥落後この息子がローマを建設すると、女神はローマ人の母なる神として崇(あが)められた。生物誕生の源である愛欲がこのアフロディテの象徴であり、そのため女性の美と魅力のすべてが女神の姿に具現されている。

[小川正広]

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