GODS AND GODDESSES

Close-up of the goddess Chloris from Botticelli's Primavera

Chloris

The goddess of flowers and a nymph of the Elysian Fields (the final resting place of the souls of heroes and virtuous men). She was the wife of Zephyros the West-Wind and the mother of Karpos (Carpus), god of fruit. Her Roman name was Flora.

Detail of Flora, the Roman name equivalent of  Chloris, from Primavera by Sandro Botticelli

Aphrodite

Aphrodite: the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.

Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans.

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Allegory of the Triumph of Venus) by Angelo Bronzino

VENUS

Venus' symbols were for the most part the same as Aphrodite's. They include roses, which were offered in Venus' Porta Collina rites, and above all, myrtle (Latin myrtus), which was cultivated for its white, sweetly scented flowers, aromatic, evergreen leaves and its various medical-magical properties. Venus' statues, and her worshipers, wore myrtle crowns at her festivals.