Artworks depicting the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, have long been branded obscene. How did she become one of the most controversial figures in the history of art?

She’s the ultimate female nude, a Greek goddess who inspired centuries of artists. Yet despite some world-class loans, her story here is jumbled ...

Sex sells, we’re often told – and, it seems, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum agrees. With a sinuous female nude painted in around ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

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Evidence of human settlement on the Urla-Çeşme peninsula, where the temple was found, dates back to the late Neolithic period. Yağmur Aydın via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers ...

A new opera by American composer Nico Muhly is reimagining the myth of Aphrodite through a contemporary lens, exploring beauty, desire and identity in a strikingly relevant way. Aphrodite had its ...

Aphrodite IV's first mission was to infiltrate the newly established base of cybernetic superheroes known as Cyberforce. The reason for this is still unknown. Aphrodite IV is the distant predecessor ...