GLAUKOS (Glaucus) A king of Korinthos (southern Greece) who deliberately prevented the mares of his herds from mating. Aphrodite was not impressed and turned the cold woman to stone. ĪNAXARETE A lady of the island of Salamis (southern Greece) who scorned a suitor and proved totally heartless at the news of his suicide. When she betrayed her lover's trust, she sought Aphrodite's help, and the goddess imposed upon her many cruel labours.
Instead the god fell in love with her himself and took her to live in her palace. Aphrodite was wrath and demanded Eros make her fall in love with a monster. PSYKHE (Psyche) A princess (of an unnamed Greek town) who was so beautiful men that came to worship her in place of Aphrodite, abandoning the shrines of the goddess. When Pan awarded the prize to Akhilleus, she cursed him with his doomed love for the Nymphe Ekho. PAN The god of shepherds was once called upon to judge a beauty contest between Aphrodite and a prideful youth named Akhilleus. When he refused to accompany her to Olympos she transformed him into a shellfish. NERITES A young sea-god who was loved by Aphrodite during the time she spent in the sea. KLEIO (Clio) One of the nine Mousai (Muses), goddesses of music and song, who was cursed by Aphrodite to fall in love with a mortal man, Pieros, as punishment for criticising the goddess' love of Adonis. When she declared that he must divide his time between Persephone and Aphrodite, the goddess, inflamed, caused the Thrakian Bakkantes to slay Kalliope's son Orpheus (some say also to punish him for scorning women and only consorting in love with boys). KALLIOPE (Calliope) One of the Mousai (Muses) who was appointed by Zeus to decide the fate of Adonis. She did so, and the poisoned robe brought about the hero's death. The goddess retaliated by instructing the dying kentauros Nessos to have Deianeira (the wife of Herakles) soak a robe in his poisoned blood, and present it to Herakles as a love-charm should he ever prove unfaithful. HERAKLES (Heracles) The greatest of the Greek heroes incurred Aphrodite's wrath when he seduced her mortal lover Adonis. HELIOS (Helius) The god of the sun was cursed by Aphrodite to fall in love the Persian princess Leukothea and unwittingly bring about her demise as punishment for revealing the goddess' extramarital affair with Ares to Hephaistos. A punishment inflicted by Aphrodite in revenge for wounding her during the Trojan War.ĮOS The goddess of the dawn was cursed by Aphrodite with an unquenchable desire for young men as punishment for lying with the goddess's lover Ares.ĮRYMANTHOS (Erymanthus) A son of Apollon who was punished by Aphrodite for witnessing (and perhaps spreading gossip of) her dalliance with Adonis. The story of Aphrodite's vendetta against the maiden Psykhe can be found on another page.ĭIOMEDES A king or lord of Argos (southern Greece) whose wife betrayed him and with her lover drove him from his homeland upon returning from the Trojan War. The most famous of the these stories include the hubristic boasts of the mother of Myrrha and the adultery of the wife of Diomedes. This page describes the wrath of the goddess incited by those who offered her personal slight, who scorned love, or made hybristic boasts. Venus Aphrodite and Eros, Greco-Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st A.D., Naples National Archaeological MuseumĪPHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation.