Aphrodite Urania
deity sky Greek corroborated · 3
A Greek goddess equated by Herodotus with the Scythian deity Argimpasa. She represents a celestial aspect of Aphrodite and was part of the Greek pantheon used as a reference point for understanding foreign deities.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Distinction between Urania and Pandemos appears in Platonic dialogues of the 4th century BCE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Aphrodite Pandemos, Gaia, Zeus, Apollo, Amon, Mars, Ares, Jupiter, Dionysus, Heracles, Osiris, Hephaestus, Janus, Hercules, Hestia, Ptah, Api, Tabiti, Papaios, Terminus, Her[e]cle, *Dyēus, Astarte, Atargatis, Dione
- aspect of
- Aphrodite
- child of
- Uranus
Mentioned by
- Ananke
- Gaia
- Zeus
- Apollo
- Amon
- Mars
- Ares
- Jupiter
- Dionysus
- Heracles
- Osiris
- Hephaestus
- Janus
- Hercules
- Hestia
- Ptah
and 10 more
Sources
wikipedia (2)
encyclopedia (1)
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Argimpasa to Aphrodite Urania”
#25326 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the elder, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite—she is the daughter of Uranus”
#44291 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free
“By the sixth century, when a "heavenly Aphrodite" (Aphrodite Urania) was to be distinguished from the "common Aphrodite of the people", ouranos signifies purely the celestial sphere itself.”
#46420 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free