At first, this statue was probably housed in the temple of Fortuna Virilis, perhaps as divine reinforcement against the perceived moral and religious failings of its cult. [31], Venus Urania ("Heavenly Venus"), used as the title of a book by Basilius von Ramdohr, a relief by Pompeo Marchesi, and a painting by Christian Griepenkerl. In myth and legend she was famous for her romantic intrigues and affairs with both gods and mortals, and she became associated with many aspects, both positive and negative, of femininity.
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This epithet is also used for a specific sculpture at the Vatican Museums.
A later temple, outside the Porta Collina and Rome's sacred boundary, may have preserved some Erycine features of her cult. The planet was at first the star of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and thence of Aphrodite.
[14] In dice-games, a popular pastime among Romans of all classes, the luckiest, best possible roll was known as "Venus". Likewise, Roman folk-etymology transformed the ancient, obscure goddess Murcia into "Venus of the Myrtles, whom we now call Murcia". The rites allowed women to drink the strongest, sacrificial wine, otherwise reserved for the Roman gods and Roman men; the women euphemistically referred to it as "honey". Venus was also a patron of the ordinary, everyday wine drunk by most Roman men and women; the seductive powers of wine were well known.
Others than the Iulii sought to connect themselves with a deity grown so popular and important, notably Gnaeus Pompeius, the triumvir.
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Caesar's heir, Augustus, made much of these personal and family associations with Venus as an Imperial deity. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.[72]. "[16], Venus Acidalia, in Virgil's Aeneid (1.715–722, as mater acidalia). Notably, iuvenis is he who has the fullness of vital force. Caesar's associations with Venus as both a personal and state goddess may also have been propagated in the Roman provinces. In fulfilment of his vow he erected a temple of Venus Genetrix in the new forum he constructed. As the goddess of sexuality, a degree of erotic beauty in her presentation was justified, which appealed to many artists and their patrons.
Petronius, in his Satyricon, places an image of Venus among the Lares (household gods) of the freedman Trimalchio's lararium. Jupiter was patron of the strongest, purest, sacrificial grade wine, and controlled the weather on which the autumn grape-harvest would depend. Roman and Hellenistic art produced many variations on the goddess, often based on the Praxitlean type Aphrodite of Cnidus.