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Today marks the anniversary of Sandro Botticelli’s death. Botticelli was a Renaissance painter and one of his most famous works was, of course, The Birth of Venus. The painting depicted the Roman Goddess Venus emerging fully grown from the ocean. 

In Myth, Venus was the daughter of Jupiter and ancestress to the Roman people. Her half-human son, Aeneas, was said to have survived the sacking of Troy and gone on to found Rome.

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The Mares of Diomedes appeared in legends of the Twelve Labours of Hercules. They were owned by Diomedes who was said to be the half human son of Ares. The horses were fed on human flesh, and in some versions of the legend even ate their owner when he was defeated by Hercules.

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