Aphrodite

Aphrodite Aphrodite’s Vanity Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Greece. She was also said to have been the most beautiful of all the Goddesses and to have been born from sea foam. Although she was beautiful, some saw her as treacherous and malicious. She was known to have a bewitching power over men that more times than not brought about their own destruction. Aphrodite also involved herself on several occasions with the affairs of the Gods and Goddesses on Mount Olympus, as well as the Greek mortals. Aphrodite was legendary for her beauty, but she was also very vain. It was her vanity that started the Trojan War. The day of Peleus and Thetis’s wedding ceremony, all gods and goddesses were invited to attend, all except Eris, the goddess of Discord. Feeling very insulted Eris set out revenge on the newly wed couple. She devised a plan to bring turmoil to the couple’s wedding day. When the sun set, the feast began. She waited until the last dish to roll a golden apple into the hall. Everyone took notice at the vividly sparkling apple. A wedding attendant picked it up and read the inscription “For the fairest.” All the Goddesses immediately broke paris, menelaus, goddesses, aphrodite, troy, helen, apple, beautiful, sparta, soon, mount, left, zeus, wedding, told, three, promised, picked, olympus, king, hermes, gods, fairest, day, brought, agamemnon, world, woman, war, very, vain, true, took, son, set