The six goddesses were Juno, Minerva, Ceres, Venus, Dian, and Vesta. […] What did Venus personify? What were the appellations of Venus? […] Where, and how was Venus worshipped? […] Laius was descended from Venus, say the mythologists, and Juno hated Venus, and all who belonged to her; so Juno always persecuted the posterity of Venus, and she pronounced a curse upon the descendants of Labducus, the father of Laius.