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.

ऐफ़्रोडाइटी प्राचीन यूनानी धर्म की प्रमुख देवियों में से एक थीं। वो प्रेम, ख़ूबसूरती और संभोग की देवी थीं। उनको बेहद ख़ूबसूरत माना जाता था और मिथकों के अनुसार उनकी उत्पत्ति युवतीरूप में ही समुद्र से हुई थी। प्राचीन रोमन धर्म में उनकी समतुल्य देवी थीं वीनस।