Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess. She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of "sacred prostitution" in Greco-Roman culture, an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous.

அப்ரோடிட் என்பவர் கிரேக்கப் பழங்கதைகளில் வரும் ஒரு பெண் கடவுள் ஆவார். இவர் காதல், அழகு, காமம் என்பவற்றுக்கான கடவுள் ஆவார். இவர் யுரேனசின் மகளாகக் கருதப்படுகிறார். சில கதைகளில் இவர் சியுசு மற்றும் டையோன் ஆகியோரின் மகள் என்றும் கூறப்படுகிறது.