Venus (mythology)
Venus was the goddess of the love, the erotischen request and the beauty of the Romans.
The acceptance, Venus is originally a italische goddess of the field, the gardens, spring andas such of farmers and winegrowers been, today is not no more represented. Also for an early cult no signs are to be found. It did not have an own Fleming (priest) and also in the oldest calendars no celebration of the Venus was registered.Since that 4. Century v. Chr. it was equated quite often as a goddess of the love with the Greek Aphrodite, their cult itself of Sicilies, particularly by the mountain Eryx, to Italy, when Venus Erycina spread. The first archaeologicalIndication was a representation as well as Persephone on a mirror from Praeneste. It arrived at special meaning as a goddess of the latinischen federation and had as such Heiligtümer in Lavinium and Ardea.
In Rome it had in old timespecial admiration as Murcia, where one wanted to see later falsely „the Myrtenfreundin “(Myrtea) and than Cloacina. As Venus Libentina was it the goddess of the sinnlichen desire, as Venus Libitina the corpse goddess. In their temple became the funeralnecessary implements keeps and the dead lists led. Parallel to the development of the Venus equating the oskischen goddess Herentas ran to Aphrodite in Kampanien. The first city-Roman Venus temple became 295 v. Chr. from Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges geweiht. 217 v. Chr., praised after the battle at the Trasimeni lake, on go-eat the Sibyllini books of the Venus of the mountain Eryx a temple and built on the Kapitol.
The legend that Aeneas was the son of it and Anchises, was extended there,that he had emigrated after the destruction Trojas after Latium. First Venus led its son with the old father Anchises reliably from the going down city. As a goddess of the love it ensured for the fact that itself the karthagische queen Dido in Aeneasfell in love and it refuge granted. Also in the crucial battle against rotation it intervened on sides of its son and returned to this its Speer. A portrait of their is to have brought Aeneas also after Lavinium.
Beside the multiples, thatGreek Aphroditekult appropriate forms of the admiration, which enjoyed her, has it a special meaning as Venus genetrix, i.e. as a master nut/mother of the Roman people by its son Aeneas (mould Aeneadum). Particularly the sex of the Julier, thatits descent of its grandchild Iulus, which son of the Aeneas deduced, admired it as a master nut/mother. In this sense its Julius Cäsar established 46 v. as Venus genetrix on the forum put on by it. Chr.a magnificent temple, with thatannually elftägige plays were celebrated. When master nut/mother of the whole Roman people was it beside the Roma of Hadrian of the 135 completed, wonderful double temples in the proximity of the Kolosseums (later templum Urbis called) geweiht, from that today only ruins availableare.
Venus was the 1. April holy, where it of the Roman Matronen beside the Fortuna Virilis, the goddess of the luck of the women with the men, and the Concordia as Venus Verticordia (Wenderin of the female hearts to breed andCustom was admired). Of smaller importance the cults of the Venus Obsequens ( the Willfährigen) were, the Venus Salacia (goddess of the Buhlerinnen) and other one. Also in Kampanien, probably due to Greek influences, the cult of the Venus stood in high reputation, here was itfor example as Venus Fisica city goddess of Pompeji.
works of art, those the Venus represent
 the birth of the Venus (1485), to Sandro Botticelli |
 the birth of the Venus (Bouguereau) |
 Venus (Cranach) |
 Venus and Eroten on the sea (Cabanel) |
 Venus afterthe bath (old villages) |
 Aphrodite of kneeling DOS |
