Venus - Definition and Overview

Venus can refer to many things:

• Venus: the second closest planet to the Sun in our solar system
• Venus (mythology): the Roman goddess of love
• The planet Venus in Astrology is supposed to influence love and in Medical astrology is supposed to influence the digestive system.
• Venus Williams is a tennis champion and the sister of another tennis champion, Serena Williams.
• In alchemy, the name Venus was used for the metal copper (since its name derives from Cyprus, the island of Venus)
• Venus de Milo, an ancient sculpture symbolizing an ideal of female beauty
• Venus figurines, prehistoric works of art that may have been fertility icons
• Venus, Texas
• "Venus" is the title of a track on Television's 1977 album Marquee Moon.
• "Venus, the Bringer of Peace" is a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.
• Venus (heroine) in the Sailor Moon series.
• "Venus" was the nickname of a disk jockey on TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. This was short for "Venus Flytrap," his pseudonym. (His real name was later revealed to be Gordon Sims.)