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Venus Genetrix
Venus Genetrix
Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης
	The statue today in the Archaeological Museum
Year	1st-2nd century
Catalogue	No 831
Medium	Pentelic marble
Movement	Roman
Subject	the goddess Aphrodite
Dimensions	171 cm (67 in)
Condition	Head and forearms missing
Location	Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
Owner	Greece

The Venus Genetrix, also known as the Aphrodite of Thessalonica (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης), is a Roman marble statue of the first or second century depicting the Greek love goddess Aphrodite, identified with the Roman Venus, in her role as genetrix, or the 'foundress of the family', an epithet under which she was commonly honoured in Rome.

The life-sized statue is a Roman copy of an earlier Greek original which has been lost known as the Venus of Frejus or Venus of Naples-Louvre (named after the best preserved copy), and it is considered to be one of the best sculptures of that type. Its head, arms below the elbows and part of the goddess's peplos are not preserved. The Venus was found in the temple of Serapis (Serapeion) in Thessalonica, a city in northern Greece that flourished during the Roman period. It is now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.