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| | '''Venus''' was a [[Roman]] [[god]]dess. In [[79]], [[Donna Noble]], after dressing up in Roman clothing, compared herself to Venus in an attempt to make [[Evelina (The Fires of Pompeii)|Evelina]] [[smile]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') In [[2009]], [[Wilfred Mott]] claimed that the [[planet]] [[Venus]] was the only planet in the [[solar system]] to be named after a woman. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'') |
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| |image = Aphrodite life bringer.jpg
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| |species = Olympian
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| |origin = [[Olympus]]
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| |sibling = Ares (mythology){{!}}Ares
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| |child = Eros (mythology){{!}}Eros
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| |first = The Life Bringer! (comic story)
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| |appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105]]''
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| '''Aphrodite''', later known as '''Venus''', was a female [[Olympian]], known as a goddess in the home of the Greek gods. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Life Bringer! (comic story)|The Life Bringer!]]'') She "inspired [[love]] in the hearts of mankind". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Queen of Time (audio story)|The Queen of Time]]'')
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| Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was [[Venus (god)|Venus]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')
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| == Biography ==
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| Aphrodite rose from the [[sea]] amidst a cluster of [[oyster]]s. These oysters were later acquired by [[Hecuba]]. She tried to serve them to the [[Second Doctor]] when she invited him for dinner, seemingly not realising that they had, over the intervening millennia, decayed into putrescent slime. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Queen of Time (audio story)|The Queen of Time]]'')
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| When several of the gods decided to align themselves with the planets of the [[solar system]], Aphrodite chose [[Venus]] as her domain. [[Pan]] chose [[El Mundo]], where his descendants, the [[Satyrmen]], eventually developed a key that would let them open gates to the realm of the gods. Pan shared this technology with the other gods, giving them keys of their own, including Aphrodite. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105]]'')
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| [[File:Shell-craft life bringer.JPG|thumb|right|Aphrodite gives [[Prometheus (mythology)|Prometheus]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]] a lift in her flying [[shell-craft]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Life Bringer! (comic story)|The Life Bringer!]]'')]]
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| In one story, Aphrodite and her son [[Eros (mythology)|Eros]] were confronted by the giant beast [[Typhon]]. They leapt into the ocean to evade him, and were dragged to safety by two fish; the fish were rewarded with a place in the heavens and became [[Pisces]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Introduction and links (short story)|Introduction and links]]'') | |
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| Displeased to find that [[Prometheus (The Life Bringer!)|Prometheus]] had returned to [[Olympus]], she took him and the [[Fourth Doctor]] to see [[Zeus (The Life Bringer!)|Zeus]], whom she informed that Prometheus stubbornly intended to repopulate the universe with men again. Aphrodite later went to see Prometheus in his cell, hoping to persuade him to be more reasonable, but found that he had escaped and alerted Zeus. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Life Bringer! (comic story)|The Life Bringer!]]'')
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| Occasionally, Aphrodite's brother [[Ares]], the god of war, became inflamed with lust for her; one of their unions resulted in their twin sons, [[Phobos (mythology)|Phobos]] and [[Deimos (mythology)|Deimos]]. The subsequent occasion, Ares's star Mars began to pursue Aphrodite's star Venus through [[Greek Space]], smashing holes in Olympos and raining fire across the land. Their relative [[Iris Wildthyme|Iris]] devised a solution in which the two stars would spin about missing each other, only rarely aligning in pleasurable occultations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wandering Stars (short story)|Wandering Stars]]'')
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| Three billion years after the extinction of the [[Venusian (Venusian Lullaby)|Venusians]], [[Theo Possible]] visited the site of the vanished metropolis [[Ujannonot]], where he encountered Aphrodite sitting on a rock. He returned her key, which had been stolen, and she asked Theo to avoid [[Señor 105]] for the time being. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105]]'')
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| == Appearance ==
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| When Theo Possible met her on Venus, Aphrodite was a human-looking woman, naked apart from a delicate chain necklace, on which she hung her [[Aphrodite's key|interdimensional key]]. She had flame-coloured hair that swirled in the blistering, toxic gases, which did not harm her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105]]'')
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| == References ==
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| [[Odysseus]] hoped that the [[First Doctor]], whom the Greeks had mistaken for [[Zeus]], would tell a tale or two of Aphrodite at dinner. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'')
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| In [[Parallel universe (The Endless Night)|a parallel universe]], one where the effects of the [[reality bomb]] caused its [[star]]s to wink out, the ancient Greeks believed that the observable disappearances were [[Hermes]] stealing them as gifts for Aphrodite. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Endless Night (audio story)|The Endless Night]]'')
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