who were the children of Aphrodite?
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Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.\n\nHer children were: \n(deities) Charites, Hymenaios, Priapus, Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios, Phobos and Aeneas, Deimos, Eunomia, Hermaphroditus, Peitho, Rhodos, Tyche, Harmonia\n\n(mortal) - Eryx, Aeneas
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Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis. He's the son of Zeus. He's the god of sun, light, clarity, and truth. He's important in greek myths due to the myth of "Apollo and Daphne", where he chased a young beautiful water nymph because he got struck by "cupid's arrow", a gold tipped one that cause lust, desire, and love. Daphne was struck by a lead tipped arrow which cause disgust and repulsion. He chased Daphne across the Earth until she became tired and so came to Mother Earth who turned Daphne into a laurel tree, leaving Apollo heartbroken and despaired. Hmm...how sad isn't it?
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Simon Peter\nAndrew\nJames (son of Zebedee)\nJohn\nPhilip\nThomas\nMatthew\nJames (son of Alphaeus)\nThaddeus\nSimon\nJudas\nBartholomew
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Does this mean that the first man in the holy book was the bastard son of a goddess? Who got her pregnant. I like this story. Was it one of the other Gods?
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Just to add more details to the previous (correct) answer.  The king of troy heard a prophesy that his next born child would cause the fall of troy, so, as was commen in those days, he abandoned the newborn in the hills to die in the elements.  But a childless shepherd found him and raised him.\n\nHades inscribed the apple to cause Zues trouble with his wife (Hera) his daughter (Athena) and his mistress (Aphrodite).  And he was the one that decreed that Paris, asleep on this hills near his flock, should make the decision. \n\nHera promised him knowledge, Athena prowess in battle, and Aphrodite the most beautiful woman in the world. He chose the woman.  Unfortunately Helen was married at the time, but she still ran away with Paris.  And it was her husbands armies that took down Troy, fulfilling the prophesy.
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The bible really doesn't say where all the other women came from so this is a good question.\n\nI once asked a minister where did the women that the children of Adam and Eve married come from.  I was told they married sisters but back then they were still so nearly perfect from the hand of God that it wasn't a problem genetically. That was a good technical answer but it still left me wondering because the bible doesn't mention any other children of Adam and Eve....
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The Greeks had the Moirae, 3 sisters who "controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death, and beyond."  Apparently even the gods were afraid of them.  They were known to the Romans as the Parcae.  The Germanic Norns were similar.
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I suggest that you read that love letter. For instance:\n\nAnd the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters\nGenesis 5:4\n\nAdam and Eve had at least 7 children. Cain, Abel, Seth, sons which means at least 2 more boys, and daughters which means at least 2 girls. They probably had many other children that are not listed because they are not needed in the geneology of Christ.
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Abel had no children (or a wife) and there was more than 2 boys mentioned in the Bible (u forgot seth)- but it is believed with scientific evidence that they had 28 kids (10 boys and 18 girls)\n\nIncest was not an issue at this time because God ordered them to populate the earth. I guess it was a miracle that the children were not born with defects that would be expected today.  But I dont think it was because the bloodline wasnt diluted yet, because you cant get more diluted than people that ARE NOT related, right?  ( I could be wrong )
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According to Hesiod's Theogony, Prometheus and his brother Epimethius were the sons of the titans Iapetus and Asie (or Clymene). Although there seems to be some inconsistency about who the mother actually was, Asia, Asie, Pronoia, or Clymene. Some say Asie and Clymene were the same person. \n\n["Asia [was named] after the wife of Prometheus; yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter name, saying that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Kotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name." - Herodotus, Histories]\n\n["Iapetus took Klymene, the light-stepping daughter of Okeanos, to be his wife ..." - Hesiod, Theogony]\n\n[""The unhappy mother [Asia] of Prometheus." - Lycophron, Alexandra 1282] \n\n... and so on. In any case, the Clymene who married Iapetus is not the same as the Klymene who loved Helios.\n\nClymene and Iapetus were the parents of Prometheus (forethought), Epimethius (afterthought), Menoittius (violent Anger), and Atlas (endurance). \n\nThe message of Prometheus's character seems to be one of careful planning, and independent thought, and tenacity. When confronted with a problem, he applied his own logic and ideals to solving it -- then made it happen. He was more interested in results than rules. Even though his independence and willingness to stand up to authority brought him punishment in the short run, in the long run his strength of character brought him his redemption. \n \nPrometheus is mainly known for assisting in the creation of manking, and also giving them fire. \n\nThe story varies depending on who you roll with: in some stories [Hyginus, Astronomica], Zeus took fire from mankind after a dispute and Prometheus brought it back. But in most, [Hesiod, Diodorus,Aeschylus] it was Prometheus who brought men fire to begin with. \n\nThe Hyginus story seems more linear: at first, Prometheus helped men decieve Zeus into taking the worst parts of the animals as the sacrifical share. In anger, Zeus took fire away from mankind. Prometheus stole it back by hiding it in a fennel stalk. \n\nIn the other stories, Prometheus and his brother Epimethius were charged with endowing the animals and men. But unwise Epimetheus gave everything to the animals and had nothing left to give to man. So Prometheus stole fire and gave it to him, rather than leave men with nothing. \n\nEither way, Prometheus's punishment for this was to be chained to a rock, where an eagle would tear his liver by day, but he would heal overnight so he could endure the torture again the next day. In addition, Zeus vented his anger on mankind by sending Pandora and loosing evils on the world. \n\nPrometheus eventually gained his release. Later, Zeus wanted to marry Thetis. But Prometheus knew that Thetis would bear him a som who would surpass him, in the same way Zeus himself had overthrown Cronos. In exchange for his release, Prometheus warned Zeus and prevented the marriage.\n\nOther fun facts about Prometheus: \n1. The blood that dripped from his body was made by Hecate into a potion that would make a man invincible. \n2. After the creation of men, he created Veritas (Truth) to regulate their behavior. But he was called away in the middle of making her, and his apprentice Dolous (Trickery) used the opportunity to fasion a statue exactly like her which he named Mendacium (Lies). But Dolus ran out of clay before he made her feet. Prometheus, impressed, decided to fire both sculptures anyway, which is why Truth stands on its own, but Falsehood is unsteady. \n3. Prometheus was the father of Deucalion, the central charater of the one of the first stoes in which the gods used a flood to exterminate man except for a sole survivior who was charged with repopulating the world. The story is similar to the story of Unapashtim in the epic of Gilgamesh, the first story of its type. This is the story that was later assimilated
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Orestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime. With the assistance of Electra and his friend Pylades, who accompanied him in all his adventures, he killed his mother and her lover. After this matricide he was haunted by the Furies (Erinyes) until he reached Athens. He was tried and acquitted by the Areopagus, the tribunal of Athenian judges. Not all the Furies, however, accepted the verdict; and, to win full expiation from his crime, he was told to steal the sacred image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece. It is said that he later married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatized his vengeance and expiation. The story was also used by Sophocles and Euripides.
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In prehistoric times, children so loved their parents that when the parents passed away, the children plastered their corpses with lime and began to pray to their ancestors. They stood these human totem poles in the center of the cave and danced around them hoping that their parent's love would reach out and touch them just as the spirit of the animal totem they hunted and ate would grant them the strength of the animal. They painted the animal totems on the walls of their caves. See the Lascaux cave paintings in France. Similar art appeared in other lands. Then came the ice age 20,000 years ago which ended 12,500 years ago.\n\nAfter the ice age ended, and the floods came and agriculture took hold, people began farming around 11,000 years ago and built "god houses" to house the clay and lime plastered corpses of their relatives. Some societies ate soft morsels of their beloved ones to gain their strength, (such as in New Guinea highlands) while other cultures made statues out of their parent's or grandparent's bodies to keep them around so they could talk to them. \n\nBy the end of the neolithic era about 5,500 years ago, the idea of a spirit in the body was said to dwell in the trees, and people prayed to trees. Finally, people began to fashion idols and animals or 'venus' fertility figures out of clay and fire the clay. Women were worshipped because only they could be factories for producing men who could hunt in teams and bring down the mammoths. Women were highly valued during the ice age from producing children. Men who were alpha types instead of team workers were banned from the settlements. People began to tattoo the energy meridian lines as in acupuncture, about 5,000 years ago. Spirit, then became something within the energy of the body as well as dwelling without in the fertility goddesses who brought the cycles of the harvest and new children.\n\nAbout 14,000 years ago, instead of their parent's corpses inside the clay, just the art work/sculpture remained of these idols--people, venuses, fertility goddesses with huge mammaries to feed the world, and other sculpture appeared as cults, such as the clan of the cave bear and the cat cult.\n\nBy 9,000 years ago, the idol then went inside the god house to protect it--in the center of the village. That's how people began to pray to idols. Finally the spirit dwelling in the idol was released by smashing the idol or opening it's mouth to speak.\n\nBy the time of Abraham in the Hebrew year 5756 years ago, Sumerian shops for making ceramic idols evolved into the art of smashing the idol to let the spirit free. Then monotheism occurred to those contemplating the invisible God. By 4,000 years ago people eventually realized the spirit isn't in the man-made idol after all, it's in heaven and is too omnipotent to be knowable, but has created all, just as your parents created you from stardust. In Egypt, one pharoah prayed to the sun disk. In the deserts, the monotheists wandered, led by Cohanic priests who prayed to Yahweh, the one invisible, unknowable God....and suddenly, worship of female venuses and female reproduction cycles was not fashionable any more, and a patriarch male God took the woman's place in the God house in the middle of the village. From then on, societies were divided into pagan worshippers of female goddesses such a the cat cult in Egypt and the cult of mammary gland-clad female deities, such as Astarte in Greece/Anatolia. \n\nThe competition was on, and by the close of the classical period, God was male and sacrificed his only son, Jesus just as Abrahim almost sacrificed his Isaac, but let Ishmael wander in the desert with his slave mom...So the moral of the story is male patriarchs kick to the curb the female...After all, God didn't give his only daughter...The female venus statue was hammered to gravel, and the male God reigned in the patriarchy. \n\nThe female cat cult ended...by men's dogged
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the characters are based on Greek mythology
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Menelaus had demanded that only he should slay his faithless wife; but, when he raised his sword to do so, the sight of her beauty caused him to let the sword drop from his hand. Instead, he led her in safety to the Greek ships.\n\nHelen returned to Sparta and lived for a time with Menelaus, where she was encountered by Telemachus in The Odyssey. After Menelaus' death, Helen was exiled by Menelaus's son, Megapenthes. According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus's return.\n\nAssuming the story of Helen is, to some extent, based on a real event it is worth knowing that this and many other Greek legends point to the existence of a matrilineal inheritance system. Thus Menelaus' right to the throne is based on his being married to the daughter of the previous king. However beautiful Helen may have been, this suggests a more cynical reason to fight over her.\n\nHelen committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree. After her death she is deified.
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Hermes from the Greek God,and  Aphrodite from the Goddess   of love
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I've already done this kind of project for myself, so I like to think I know what I'm doing and that I'm correct in my mythology, I love mythology. By the time I'm done, this answer will be quite long and will read both as the social pages and genealogical survey of the Ancient Gods. I have to say, unfortunately, that several of the answers previous to my own are incorrect. Allow me to offer the proper "translations" for you and I hope you find them helpful.\n\nSun = In some myths, Helios is the sun itself, Apollo is the god of the sun, drawing the sun behind his chariot across the Daytime sky. (Oddly enough, Apollo is both Greek and Roman)\n\nMercury = Hermes, the male messenger of the gods. His counterpart, Hebe, a daughter of Zeus and Hera, served as female messenger, cupbearer, or handmaiden to Hera, depending on the myth.\nMercury has no known satelites.\n\nVenus = Aphrodite, the goddess of love.\nVenus has no satelites.\n\nEarth = Gaia, the original mother; a Titan goddess.\nEarth's satelite = The Moon: In some myths, Selene is the moon itself, and sister to Helios. The twin sister of Apollo, Artemis, is the goddess of the moon, and draws the moon behind her chariot across the Nighttime sky. (Artemis is called Diana in Roman myths)\n\nMars = Ares, the god of war. \nMars's satelites = Phobos and Deimos: sons by Aphrodite are Fear and Panic.\n\nJupiter = Zeus, seemingly god of most everything else that isn't designated to another deity.\nJupiter's satelites = Metis, goddess of Wisdom, mother of Athena; Adrastea, goddess of reward, punishment and divine retribution, daughter of Ananke; Amalthea, in some myths, the nymph or her goat who nursed the infant Zeus; Thebe, a nymph; Io, a mortal maiden; Europa, a mortal princess, the mother of Minos; Ganymede, a mortal boy, whom Zeus incorporated as male cupbearer to the gods; Callisto, a maid attending Artemis, the mother of Arcas. Through circumstances, Callisto and Arcas were transformed into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor; Leda, the mortal mother of 2 sets of twins...by Zeus, Pollux and Helen (of Troy), by her husband, Castor and Clytemnestra. Castor and Pollux are the constellation Gemini; Himalia, a nymph; Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus; Elara, the mother of a giant; Ananke, goddess of Destiny, mother of Adrastea and the Fates; Carme, goddess of grain, mother of Britomartis; Pasiphae, the wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur; Sinope, a mortal woman.\n\nSaturn = Cronos, the god of agriculture, father of Zeus (along with Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon).\nSaturn's satelites = Pan, a faun (part human, part goat) god of the woods; Atlas, a Titan, who bears the heavens on his shoulder, brother to Prometheus and Epimetheus; Prometheus, the one who brought fire to mankind, and paid for it; Pandora, the one who opened her infamous Box, wife to Epimetheus; Epimetheus, mythologically, he made the animals of the world, a task so wonderful his brother Prometheus tried to beat his efforts; Janus, the god of gates and doorways, with a face pointing in 2 directions; Mimas, a Titan slain by Heracles*; Enceladus, a Titan supposedly buried under Mt. Etna; Tethys, a Titan goddess of the Sea; Telesto, a sea nymph, daughter of Tethys; Calypso, goddess of Silence, Dione, depending on the myth, she and Zeus are the parents of Aphrodite (in other myths, Aphrodite was born of the foam of the sea where it churned the dismembered parts of Uranus); Helene, an Amazon; Rhea, wife of Saturn, mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus; Titan, giant children of Gaia and Uranus; Hyperion, a Titan, father of Helios and Selene; Iapetus, a Titan, father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas; Phoebe, grandmother to Apollo and Artemis.\n\nUranus = Ouranos, god of the heavens.\nUranus's satelites (don't seem to be steeping in mythological context, but in Shakespeare) = Cordelia, "King Lear"; Ophelia, "Ham
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In the beginning there was only the Goddess Gaia (earth) and the Sky God (uranus).  From the union of the two (where earth meets sky) came many babies (the titans and many different beasts and monsters including the hundred-handed giants and the cyclops).  Uranus did not want to see these children and forced them all to live underground so he would never have to see them (not exactly an ideal father).  \n\nThe Goddess was very sad at the way he treated her children and asked them to rebel.  The youngest of the 12 titans agreed and the next time Uranus tried to lay down with his mother he rose up and attacked Cronus (I won't go into the details since they would probably be asterisked out) and drove him away permanently.  Thus began the rule of the Titans with Cronos as thier leader.\n\nEach of the Titans was named after a fundamental force in the world: forethought, oceans, memory... Things went on for awhile until Cronos began to fear his own child would someday rise up to overthrow him.  Every time a child was born he would swipe it up and swallow it whole so it would never be able to challenge his rule.\n\nZeuss's mother was also saddened by this, and substituted a rock for baby zeuss which was swallowed whole.  After Cronos left Zeuss was given to the neriads (rivers) to raise.  He eventually grew up and was discovered by his father who agreed to take him in as a lowly servent to prove his loyalty, Zeuss (being clever) poisoned Cronos's drink and made him ill, whereupon he regurgitated all of the Olympian Gods he had swallowed (they were divine and were still very much alive).  Thus began the war of the Titans whereupon the Olympians enlisted the help of the cyclopses and the hundred-handed ones and others to overthrow the Titans.\n\nThere are many ways to view the story, as a parable, creation story or an oversimplification of life deveoping on earth.  If you want more specifics try the link below or the original creation stories.