Reminder: in the earliest known myths Aphrodite was originally a direct copy of Ishtar (and a late addition to Greek mythology), before diverging over the centuries into a more distinctly Greek goddess. The "war goddess" aspects got deleted in the process.
(Except in Sparta. But the way Sparta viewed the gods is more obscure, since it was overwhelmingly their arch-enemy Athens that put the myths into writing.)
Reminder: in the earliest known myths Aphrodite was originally a direct copy of Ishtar (and a late addition to Greek mythology), before diverging over the centuries into a more distinctly Greek goddess. The "war goddess" aspects got deleted in the process.
(Except in Sparta. But the way Sparta viewed the gods is more obscure, since it was overwhelmingly their arch-enemy Athens that put the myths into writing.)
Please tell me you learned this from some place other than Overly Sarcastic Productions.
