Venus

Roman goddess of love, mother of Aeneas and of Cupid, daughter of Jupiter and wife of Vulcan; identified with the Greek Aphrodite and called Cytherea, Erycina and Idalian Venus by the poets. In the Aeneid she pleads for Aeneas before Jupiter, meets him as a huntress, and obtains his arms from Vulcan; in Ovid she is caught in Vulcan's net, sends Cupid against Pluto, makes Aeneas a god and turns Caesar into a star.