In the Iliad, this figure's mother is Dione, to whom she goes for consolation after Diomedes wounds her in battle.
One account of this figure's birth tells fish pushing an egg out of the Euphrates. In the Iliad, this figure's mother is Dione, to whom she goes for consolation after Diomedes wounds her in battle. After sleeping with Dionysus, this goddess became the mother of Priapus. A story from The Golden Ass relates how this goddess had her daughter in law retrieve a box of beauty from Persephone. Zeus gave this deity to Hephaestus as wife, and she caused the Trojan War when she offered a shepherd the most beautiful woman in the world in exchange for a golden apple. For 10 points, name this goddess born from the blood of Uranus, the mother of Eros and the Greek goddess of love.
One account of this figure's birth tells fish pushing an egg out of the Euphrates.
Aphrodite [accept Venus until "Dionysus"; do not accept or prompt thereafter]