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Botticelli's Birth of Venus depicts Venus a lovely young woman, but her face has a child-like innocence. This is possibly due to the fact that Venus is a "newborn". Seeing her standing on a seashell in the waves made me think of Venus' Greek name: Aphrodite, which means "sea foam". Her Greek name ties into her birth: when Chronos (Uranus in Rome) was killed by Zeus(Jupiter in Rome) his body fell of the top of Mount Olympus and landed into the ocean. The blood from Chronos' split head mixed with the sea foam, it gave birth to Aphrodite/ Venus.