{"id":131,"date":"2021-01-03T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2023-02-02T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T02:25:11","slug":"who-did-aphrodite-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/who-did-aphrodite-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite’s Curse: A Look at the Goddess’s Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aphrodite the Greek Goddess places curses on many occasions in Greek mythology, usually after feeling that she had been done harm. In this article, we are going to answer the question: who did Aphrodite curse?<\/p>\n
Aphrodite cursed Myrrha after perceiving her to be a threat to her status as the most beautiful goddess. She also cursed Diomedes, the king of Argos, Eos the goddess of dawn, Heracles and Pan, each time out of romantic revenge or when her beauty was threatened.<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to being the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite has a dark side, including aspects of war, death, mourning. Perhaps it was Aphrodite’s dark side that came out when she cursed Myrrha the princess of Cyprus.<\/p>\n When Myrrha\u2019s mother, the queen of Cyprus, boasted that her daughter was more beautiful, Aphrodite placed a curse which caused Myrrha to feel incurable lust for her father, King Cinyras. She seduced him, and conceived a son named Adonis. The king was furious and tried to kill her, so Aphrodite took pity on her and turned her into a myrrh tree to protect her.<\/p>\n