Aphrodite
爱神阿佛洛狄忒

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is one of the most worshipped Greek deities. She is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.
在希腊神话中，阿佛洛狄忒是最受崇拜的奥林匹斯神灵之一。她是代表爱情、美丽与性欲的女神。在罗马神话中与阿佛洛狄忒相对应的是维纳斯。

According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros (“sea foam”) arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to Cyprus. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione.
据赫西奥德的记载，克洛诺斯用锋利的镰刀割下了父亲——天神乌拉诺斯的阳具，然后将这不朽之物扔进了大海，随即在四周泛起很多白色的珍珠般的泡沫。阿佛洛狄忒就在这些泡沫中诞生，后来被海浪冲上了塞浦路斯。荷马则称阿佛洛狄忒是宙斯与狄俄涅的女儿。

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity, was not seen as a threat. Aphrodite had many lovers — both gods, such as Ares, and men, such as Anchises.
因为阿佛洛狄忒的美貌，众神竞相展开对她的追求，却担心会因此破坏奥林匹斯山的和平甚至导致战争，于是宙斯把她嫁给了因既丑陋又瘸腿而无威胁的火神希菲斯托斯。阿佛洛狄忒并不是一位忠诚的妻子，她有许多情人——有诸如战神阿瑞斯等天神，也有诸如英雄安喀塞斯等凡人。

Among her mortal lovers, the most famous was perhaps Adonis. Both Aphrodite and Persephone fell in love with Adonis. The two goddesses began such a quarrel, Zeus was forced to intercede. He decreed that Adonis would spend a third of the year with Aphrodite, a third of the year with Persephone, and a third of the year with whomever he wished.
在阿佛洛狄忒的众多凡界情人中，也许美少年阿多尼斯算得上是她的挚爱。阿佛洛狄忒和珀耳塞福涅同时爱上了阿多尼斯。她们之间爆发了激烈的争吵，最后天神宙斯不得不出面仲裁，判决阿多尼斯一生中的三分之一属于阿佛洛狄忒，三分之一属于珀耳塞福涅，另外的三分之一则由阿多尼斯自己支配。