Mythology

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	Greek Mythology

	VENUS, the goddess of beauty and love, according to Homer was born in Olympus by Zeus and Dione. Bear in mind that Homer was writing the history of Greeks at the times. Anyway, some mythographers insist that she came out of the waves and walking on the sea arrived first in Cythera and then to Paros, in Cyprus (that’s why she was called Cytherea and Cypris). There, on the beach of Paphos, the three Charms, lower female deities, found her sitting on the seashore.

	Then, they bathed her, they combed her blond hair, and they dressed her divine body with equally divine garments and brought her to Olympus, where all the immortal gods were surprised with her unique beauty.

	EVER SINCE she didn’t stop offering to gods and to human creatures alike her abundant gifts. She always was the benefactor of the human race, incomparable to any other god, because no-one else had disposed her grace. She loved people and people loved her as much as her gifts. At least that is what we learn from the ancient historians and poets.

	SHE INSPIRED hundreds of artists all over the world. Even Homer wrote to her a hymn as well as Sappho, the lyric poet who considered herself as a servant of Venus. She was adored in every corner of the ancient world and her believers offered her shrines and her statues, some of which are true masterpieces, such as the one from the island of Mylos.

	QUEEN OF IMATHIA, reigned unceasingly to this Macedonian district and its capital Veria, passing through them every time she was going to or leaving Olympus. That’s why she is still donating her divine goods to the Imathian farmers, part of which are our products.

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