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 ...

Smashing a pomegranate on New Year’s Day is an Ancient Greek custom that is considered a symbol of good fortune.

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 ...

Eros, known as Cupid in Roman mythology, was the ancient Greek god of love and desire, often depicted as a winged youth with a bow and arrow. The offerings found inside the tombs of the building ...

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 ...