Artio is associated with spring she sleeps during winter and reawakens when the plants and animals wake up. Under Gestapo interrogation, Hans Scholl gave several explanations for the origin of the name "The White Rose," and suggested he may have chosen it while he was under the emotional influence of a 19th-century poem with the same name by German poet Clemens Brentano. Roses may have thorns, but this is the smallest obstacle for a very special family, which set up a small rose water production company. The rose in the popular 13th-century French poem "Romance of the Rose" is a personification of the woman, the object of the lover's attentions, and his plucking of the rose represents his conquest of her. In ancient Greece, the rose was closely associated with the goddess Aphrodite. Shrines were dedicated to her in Pompeii and Delos and even the Emperor Gaius himself dressed in female clothing and joined the … Presumably, the love he holds for the princess saves him from the evil wrongdoers -- a direct correlation to the magic of roses from ancient Greek mythology. However, their use as symbols, whether metaphorically or allegorically, is not recorded with any significance until the texts of classic Athenian literature. In one of the most famous love stories in all of literature, Eros eventually weds Psyche.