Aphrodite

Question 1

Typically shown in which pose?

Answer 1

Modesty, bathing scenes

Question 2

Crouching Aphrodite poses

Answer 2

• Popular stature
• Depicted next to bathing pool, getting in or out
• Washin, wringing hair
• Fertility is enhanced

Question 3

Who was Sappho?

Answer 3

• A female poet
• The Sapphic Gaze: lesbian relaitonships, request Aphrodite’s presence and help

Question 4

Nature?

Answer 4

Goddess of Love, Sex, Desire, Fertility

Question 5

Epithet

Answer 5

the Cyprian (reference to birthplace)
Urania - Aphrodite from Uranus’ blood and sea foam
Pandemos - Common Aprhodite, of Zeus and Dione

Question 6

Pygmalion and Galatea?

Answer 6

Celibate sculptor, makes beautiful female scultpure, prays to Aphrodite for companionship, sculpture comes to life

Question 7

Aphrodite’s power over love?

Answer 7

Inflcits grievous love - an all consuming force, destroys a person from inside out
- physical symptoms from love sickness

Question 8

Consorts?

Answer 8

Ares
- Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia
Hermes
- Hermaphroditus
Anchises

Question 9

Consorts?

Answer 9

Ares
- Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia
Hermes
- Hermaphroditus
Anchises
- Aeneas
Adonis
- In competitionwith Persephone

Question 10

Speech of Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium

Answer 10

Companionship and soulmates
- Male/Male (chidlren of sun)
- Female/Female (children of earth)
- Female/Male (children of moon)
Very powerful, Zeus splits them apart, must seek their counterpart out

Question 11

Psyche’s tasks?

Answer 11

Sorting the pile of grain
Collect gold fleece from carniverous sheep
Bring box to Persephone without looking inside