Long ago, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, cast a spell upon a young woman who had angered her, finally turning her into a myrrh tree. Months later, the trunk of the tree burst open and ...

It seems a fitting new home for the J. Paul Getty Museum’s famous cult statue of a goddess, which many experts now believe represents Persephone, not Aphrodite, as she has long been known.

Aphrodite's eyes gleamed, amused, but as he began to tell her the story of Persephone's loss, that warm glow in her eyes dimmed. "I cannot even begin to decide how to make amends. She was right.

Decades before artist and visionary Geraldine Lloyd became intrigued by six Greek goddesses -- Hera, Athena, Artemis, Demeter, Aphrodite and Persephone -- she would marry and begin a family at the ...

When Aphrodite was gone, Persephone opened the casket. When she saw the boy, she too was instantly charmed. She lifted him out of the casket and determined to raise him.