A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

“Plato – the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age – was long thought to favour love without sex ... teacher Socrates famously spent the night alone with the leading sex-symbol of ancient Athens but ...

Yet, some love symbols make it effortless for anyone to express this universal feeling. These symbols surround us in our ...

Similarly, violets were a popular symbol of love between women up until the early 1900s. Ancient Greek poet Sappho mentioned “violet crowns”, lavenders and the colour purple frequently in her ...

He’s an iconic symbol ... in Greek mythology. “It was probably ideas about love being fleeting or capricious that are behind the representation of Eros with wings, which [goes] back to ancient ...