"Aphrodite" (Adobe Illustrator) #3 in the "Mythology Series"

Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love and Beauty. According to The Odyssey she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, other myths speak of her as springing from the blood of Uranus after Cronus castrated him, and floating on the sea to Greece, where she was met by the Three Graces. The latter is the more accepted version. Personally I dislike her because she is exceedingly vain and thinks only of herself. I like to laugh at her eternal beauty and loveliness because she was a great grandmother of another God, Dionysus (who she also had a child by). She was married to Hephaestus, the Smith God, but she lusted after Ares, the much disliked God of War. She was also the patron Goddess of Prostitutes.

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Footnote: The raw version without the background has been banned as a friend of mine's profile image on myspace as being within their obscenity guidelines -- So now my art has been deemed too trashy for myspace and female roller derby.