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Aphrodite

Goddess of love · beauty and desire

Provoke me not, rash woman, lest I wax wroth and desert thee, and hate thee, even as now I love thee wondrously.

Given to her by HomerHomer Iliad III.414-415, trans. Murray
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In the myths

In Greek myth, Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty. Hesiod says she rose from the sea foam and came ashore at Cyprus; Homer makes her a daughter of Zeus and Dione. Married to the smith god Hephaestus, she loved Ares.

In later tellings, when the Trojan prince Paris judged her the fairest goddess and gave her the golden apple, she promised him Helen of Sparta, and so set off the Trojan War.

Sources: Hesiod, Theogony 188–206, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) · Homer, Iliad, trans. A. T. Murray (1924) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Aphrodite”

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Aphrodite, Deity card
DEITYThe third rank. Gods side.ItemGolden AppleThe golden apple Paris gave her, in her right hand

Active · Golden Apple · cooldown 5 roundsCharms 2 random enemies for 1 round: they attack their own side.

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