Chris Brown revelaed a new tattoo of the Greek goddess of Aphrodite on the back of his head.
SPIN broke down why he may have gotten this tattoo:
- Aphrodite was the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality — that's textbook stuff, and likely the reason Brown tatted-up in the first place ("Aw, love, I love love, let's put love on my head but, like, a Greek goddess because that's art, man" — him, possibly). However, Aphrodite (Venus in Roman lore) is also regularly known as a cantankerous, petty controller. Wikipedia calls her "vain, ill-tempered, and easily offended." Sound like any popular R&B singer you know?
- Aphrodite was frequently portrayed as a cheater, a serial pursuer of love and sex in all its glory. Ringing any bells?
- Aphrodite was a major inciting factor in the Trojan war, the variable in the equation that led men to wage battle against each other. Brown himself switched sides from Rihanna to Karreuche Tran so regularly that he too incited (social media) wars between the two.
- She was beloved by prostitutes.
- Aphrodite was born, according to lore, when Cronus severed Uranus' genitalia, the blood from which fell into the sea and mixed into a foam that formed the goddess.
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