Born from the remains of the castration of Uranus, Aphrodite was born from the foam of the sea and became known as the goddess of love by those who worshiped her, described by Hesoid. We also see another version of the birth of this goddess, from the gods Zeus and Dione, leaving a dual tradition of Aphrodite's birth and a fundamental duality in her character. Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild things, was born to Zeus and Leto and remained a virgin goddess who roamed the forests with her companions. These two goddesses, whose views on sexual relationships disagree, naturally lead them to have a conflicted relationship, but their well-known trait of vengeance in their myths brings similarity to both the goddess of love and hunting. Their personalities are compared through their primary functions in Greek mythology and their physical characteristics, their behavior in the myths in which they are involved, their representation in Greek art and literature, and if and how they are revered in religion. Greek. Aphrodite is depicted in character. as a perfect and breathtaking woman, characterized by her powerful sexual appeal. Although Artemis is similar in her gender and eternal youth, her appearance is not so much characterized by sexual attraction as by fertility and purity, as she is the goddess of chastity and natural environments. Aphrodite's main symbol is a belt which has magical powers to compel love, while Artemis contains a bow used to hunt flesh and is very physically strong. And of course, because Artemis is a virgin god, she has no husband or children of her own, while Aphrodite is in the complete opposite realm: she not only has a husband (Hephaestus), but also an illicit lover (Arès, the god). from...... middle of paper ......als. In this sense, deities like Aphrodite and Artemis possess a power quite similar to that of Zeus; and in this sense also, these apparently contrasting deities have something in common; Joseph Dial sums up the relationship between Aphrodite and Artemis quite well in the Instructure article, stating: "Although we often think of these two goddesses in rather benign terms – Aphrodite as the charming 'goddess of love' or Artemis as the Brave Huntress – The fact is that they can inflict punishment on the best of them, demonstrating that their power can often be as extensive and potentially deadly as that wielded by "the father of the gods". about.com/cs/mythology/a/mythaphrodite.htm http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology/a/mythartemis.htm https://uw.instructure.com/courses/862997/wiki/artemis- aphrodite-and-revenge