Aphrodite (or Venus to the Romans) is thought to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. According to Greek myth, Uranus and Gaia had a son named Cronus. The parents fought and Gaia ...

THERE was a woman in the sea, naked. When the tourists came out of the convent cloister and stood on the cliffs of Cyprus, above the shore, they saw her, sitting in a rock pool and lazily showering ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Things do not start well. Venus – or Aphrodite as she was originally called by the Greeks – was a primordial creature, said to have been ...