or Venus the Victorious, a name for the Roman goddess that emphasizes her association with imperial power and romantic conquests alike. In the ancient era, Venus Victrix, who borrowed her ties to ...

Every story about descent starts with a pull, something that draws you downward, whether you’re ready or not. In Inanna’s ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky ...

Ancient deities embody universal ideas, so unsurprisingly, early Romans did have their own homegrown goddess of fertility and procreation, whom they called Venus. Once Romans had conquered Greek ...

Specifically, archaeologists found the ring while digging up an ancient road ... is etched with a depiction of Venus Victrix — an epithet of Venus, the Roman goddess of beauty, love and sex.

Just outside the northern boundary of the ancient city ... including two depicting Venus in different roles. Known as the goddess of love in the Roman period, Venus became closely associated ...

a symbol of an ancient, enduring matriarchal faith. True, Barbie, with her cinched-in waist and narrow hips, is hardly a swelling Venus of Willendorf, a type of well-known goddess sculpture made ...