Her Roman Adaptation Was Venerated As The Mother Of The Roman Nation

The Greek gods and goddesses had a huge effect on the creation of Roman deities and mythology. Because of Rome's physical location, its residents had regular interaction with Greeks who had expanded their territory into the Italian peninsula and Sicily.

With the emergence of Roman civilization, Aphrodite was reborn as the Roman Goddess Venus. Aphrodite and Venus were formally identified in the third century BCE, according to Roman historian Titus Livius (59 BC–AD 17), and the Romans embraced Aphrodite's iconography and mythology after that. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was the mother of the Trojan hero Aeneas. The Romans credited Aeneas as Rome's creator. As a result, Aphrodite/Venus was revered as Venus Genetrix, the Mother of the Roman Country. She became more maternal, militaristic, and preoccupied with administrative bureaucracy in her new post.