This goes against cultural norms, as teenage boys would transition from worshiping Artemis, the virgin goddess, to worshiping Aphrodite, as a rite of passage from childhood into manhood.

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following ...

McCloskey replied. “At its center is Artemis Aphrodite Procter, who, making her return from my previous novel, “Moscow X,” is run out of the service after a series of operations gone wrong.

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the messenger of Zeus—the pantheon's chief deity or a sky and weather god in Greek mythology—as well as fragments of statues of Aphrodite, Eros, Artemis, and Nemesis during excavation at the ...

archaeologists uncovered heads believed to belong to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Eros, the god of love. Body fragments thought to belong to Artemis, the goddess of hunting ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

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While Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of the deities Zeus and Dione, Hesiod tells of her marine birth from the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos. The oil jar at right elegantly ...

Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also been discovered at the site.