Mythology - Roman - Venus

Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. She is considered to have been born from the seafoam, and is the counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite, though she had no real mythical background until then. In Roman mythology, she is considered the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas (Read: Virgil's Aeneid) and Julius Caesar claimed her as a direct ancestor. Her symbols were roses, myrtle, copper, the color blue, and the number five. Her Festivals were: the Veneralia on April 1st, the Vinalia urbana on April 23rd, the Vinalia Rustica on August 19th, and Venus Genetrix on September 26th.