When you think of Aphrodite...?

Question

When you think of Aphrodite what color hair do you think she has?? I know that she is the Goddess of Love... and I want to know. In Greece I hear that they have black or brown hair, But since she is the Goddess of Love would you imagine she has blond hair?? Tell me what you think and you can get some easy points..

:-)

Thanks,

Tink

Answer 1

Without going into the whole castration bit... the legend of Aphrodite speaks of her being born of the "sea foam", and coming ashore in Cypress.  Therefore, I have always imagined her as being white/caucasian (sea foam) with copper-coloured hair (Cypress) and green eyes (another allusion to the sea and copper).

Answer 2

I could see her with blond hair, but aphrodite was indeed a brunette.

Answer 3

she was a Greek Goddess she was a brunette.

Answer 4

I've always thought of her with firey red hair.  Maybe because red is the color of passion I dunno :)

Answer 5

I think she has a p***s tbh bro

Answer 6

blonde.

but that's more to do with botticelli's "birth of venus"

oh...and xena warriar princess episodes.

Answer 7

In Greece since Greeks are Caucasians along with many who have dark hair there are many Greeks both ancient and modern ones, mortals not Gods, lol!! who have blonde hair and red hair. So you can think of Aphrodite with both blonde and brown hair its accurate given she was depicted as both a blonde and brunette by the Greeks. In fact here is an ancient Greek depiction of a blonde Aphrodite from 4th century BC:

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9185/...

Depictions of more Greeks a mix of blondes, reds and brunettes:

Below are pictures of Helen and Menelaos of whom in Homers writings they are described as Helen fair haired, Achilles fair haired, Menelaos red haired, Pirithous is depicted as a blond, Hermes Praxiteles is depicted with red hair. Greeks depicted them as both dark haired AND as blonde and red haired because fair haired Greeks have existed and continue to exist since ancient times. Picture of blonde Helen and Menelaos.

http://www.sikyon.com/sparta/images/mene...

Dyonysos from Greece - red head

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/8333/...

Stag Hunt Ancient Greece - blondes

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7591/...

Lion Hunt Greece - blondes

http://www.chain.to/tracing/pella/leeuwe...

Youn Greek Women playing - blonde

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/images/ep....

Persephone & Hades Greece - both red headed

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9845/...

Blonde Priestess from the Greek region depiction from over 3500 years ago.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3492/...

Goddess Artemis depicted both as a blonde and brunette by Greeks

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7559/...



Hermes and the infant Dionysos, 4th century BC. Marble with remnants of red paint on the hair and lips. Archaeological Museum, Olympia, Greece.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6466/he...

Answer 8

Aphrodite is supposed to be the most beautiful thing in the universe, i would imagine shed have blue eyes, and blond hair,  if anyone says there prettier then her she gets jealous and curses them, just look at Medusa for instance she said she was prettier and the goddess turned the Gorgon into a monster just to make a point

Answer 9

I imagine her with brown hair

Answer 10

Actually, there are a number of Greeks with blond hair.

I believe that Aphrodite could change her appearance as she desired.  So, she could have any color hair she wished to suit the occasion..

See this site for a number of Vases for representations of the Goddess.  Here's a quote that has her hair as blond....

Colluthus, Rape of Helen 82 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C5th to 6th A.D.) :  "Kypris [Aphrodite] of crafty counsels unfolded her snood and undid the fragrant clasp of her hair and wreathed with gold her locks, with gold her flowing tresses."

Answer 11

I have always thought of her as a blondy.  

Answer 12

I picture her with blonde hair. Actually there is a greek inscription that describes her this way.

"Kypris [Aphrodite] of crafty counsels unfolded her snood and undid the fragrant clasp of her hair and wreathed gold her locks, gold her flowing tresses."

Several figures in Greek mythology had blonde hair and Menelaus of the Trojan War had red hair.

Answer 13

I instantly think of pink whenever something is associated with love, which is probably as a result of Valentine's Day. But I don't think of the standard  pink; I imagine a light shade of the color.

Answer 14

I think she has red hair!

Red is known to be the color of passion. If you look up the words "love" and "passion" in the dictionary, you will get a lot of the same results. They pretty much go hand in hand.  

Answer 15

its red hair. are you familiar with the painting of venus de milo? venus de milo is actually Aphrodite

that was the painting of how the goddess Aphrodite was born, in the painting she had long wavy bright red hair. so to answer your question based on the historical facts of mythology, she had beautiful red hair.

Answer 16

I am sure her hair was golden.

Answer 17

Golden hair

Answer 18

I'd imagine red...red is usually associated with love, plus its my favorite color o.O

Answer 19

i think Blonde hair.

haha it just comes to mind when i think of her. like blonde hair and i think Light blue beautiful eyes.

Answer 20

i would have 2 say pink w/ pink highlights prob

hey it could happen.....

Answer 21

Honestly, this is probably exposure to japanese cartoons but I would have guess pink hair.

Anyway, probably blonde.

Answer 22

I agree with red, red was thought to be a sac(red) color. After all, blood is red and it is what keeps us alive.

Answer 23

Sadly, I do think she has blonde hair (sadly because im brunette)

:)

Blonde just is more ethereal, I think.

But she just seems very delicate if you know what I mean.

Good question though!