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Aphrodite Flashcards

1
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Who were Aphrodite’s parents?

A

Zeus and Dione

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What is Hesiod’s version of Aphrodite’s birth?

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that she sprung from the foam that gathered about the severed genitals of Uranus as they floated through the sea to the island of Cyprus

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3
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What does aphros mean?

A

sea foam

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4
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Who was called Cythereia?

A

Aphrodite

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5
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The early Lycian poet Olen made both Aphrodite and Eros children of what…

A

Eileithyia

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6
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Who did Aphrodite marry?

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Hephaestus

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7
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Who did Aphrodite have affairs with?

A

Ares

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8
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Who told Hephaestus about Aphrodite’s affair?

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Helius

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9
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How did Hephaestus get revenge on Aphrodite?

A

He trapped them in bed and made them ridiculed by the other gods

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10
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Who were the children of Aphrodite and Ares?

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Eros, Deimus (Fear), Phobus (Panic), and Harmonia

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11
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Which god’s advances did Aphrodite repulse?

A

Hermes

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12
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In one of these the love-goddess was a surprisingly reluctant partner…

A

Hermes

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13
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Who helped Hermes get Aphrodite?

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Zeus

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14
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How did Zeus help Hermes get Aphrodite?

A

he sent an eagle to snatch her sandal and carry it to him. The goddess had to submit to him in order to recover it

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15
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Who was the child of Hermes and Aphrodite?

A

Hermaphroditus

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16
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Who was the child of Aphrodite and Dionysus?

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Priapus

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17
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Who was the child of Aphrodite and Poseidon?

A

Eryx

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18
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Who was the child of Aphrodite and Butes?

A

Eryx

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19
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Name the daughters of Cinyras?

A

Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia, and Myrrha

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20
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Why did Aphrodite punish Myrrha more harshly than her sisters?

A

her mother rashly boasted that the girl was more beautiful than Aphrodite

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21
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How did Aphrodite punish Myrrha?

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made her fall in love with her father

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22
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Who was the child of Myrrha and Cinyras?

A

Adonis

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23
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What infant did Aphrodite love?

A

Adonis

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24
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What did Aphrodite do with Adonis?

A

put him in a chest and gave him to persephone

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25
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Who settled the dispute of Adonis?

A

Calliope

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26
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Who refused to give Adonis back to Aphrodite?

A

Persephone

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27
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What did Calliope decree about Adonis?

A

He would spend part of each year with each goddess

28
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How did Aphrodite punish Calliope?

A

causing the death of her son Orpheus

29
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How did Adonis die?

A

he was killed by a boar

30
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What grew from Adonis’s blood

A

anemone flower

31
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Who saw Anchises as he tended his herds on Mount Ida and fell madly in love with him?

A

Aphrodite

32
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Why did Aphrodite fall in love with Anchises?

A

because zeus was annoyed she was always making the other gods fall in love with mortals and then laughing at them

33
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To seduce Anchises, who did Aphrodite pretend to be?

A

a daughter of King Otreus

34
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Who was the child of Anchises and Aphrodite?

A

Aeneas

35
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What nymphs reared Aeneas?

A

Idaean nymphs

36
Q

Because he told others the real parentage of his son, Zeus…

A

Anchises

37
Q

Which other Trojan besides Aeneas did Aphrodite favor?

A

Paris

38
Q

Who judges the beauty contest between the goddesses?

A

Paris

39
Q

Who did Paris award the apple to?

A

Aphrodite

40
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What bribe did Aphrodite offer Paris?

A

the hand of Helen

41
Q

Which side of the Trojan war did Aphrodite pick?

A

Trojans

42
Q

while saving Aeneas, who wounded Aphrodite?

A

Diomedes

43
Q

Who knocked Aphrodite down while she was aiding her lover Ares?

A

Athena

44
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Who did Aphrodite lend her belt?

A

Hera

45
Q

Who arranged a meeting for Achilles and Helen?

A

Thetis and Aphrodite

46
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Who gave Melanion the apples?

A

Aphrodite

47
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Who turned Atalanta and Melanion into Lions?

A

Aphrodite

48
Q

Who transformed Selemnus into an Achaean river when he died for love?

A

Aphrodite

49
Q

When Zeus became a swan, who pursued him in the shape of an eagle so that he might plausibly take refuge in Nemesis’ lap?

A

Aphrodite

50
Q

Who helped Zeus win Nemesis?

A

Aphrodite

51
Q

Because Hippolytus wanted to remain a virgin, what did Aphrodite do?

A

cause Phaedra to fall in love with him

52
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When Tyndareiis, king of Argos, failed to honor Aphrodite to her satisfaction, what did she arrange?

A

that his three daughters, Helen,
Clytemnestra, and Timandra, should all betray their husbands

53
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Who punished the Lemnian women?

A

Aphrodite

54
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Why did Aphrodite let the Argonauts and Lemnian women fall in love?

A

because Hephaestus was the patron god of Lemnos

55
Q

Who did Aphrodite make Clio fall in love with?

A

Pierus

56
Q

Aphrodite later carried off who to be the night warder of her shrine?

A

Phaethon (Eos’ son by Cephalus)

57
Q

How did Aphrodite punish Helius?

A

made him fall in love with Leucothoe

58
Q

Who caused Glaucus’s mares to eat him?

A

Aphrodite

59
Q

Aphrodite adopted orphaned daughters of what man?

A

Pandaurus

60
Q

what happened to the orphaned daughters of Pandaurus after Aphrodite took them to Olympus?

A

the harpies snatched them

61
Q

Who rescued Aeneas’ first wife, Creusa, from slavery among the
Greeks?

A

Aphrodite

62
Q

Who did Aphrodite rescue from slavery among the greeks?

A

Creusa

63
Q

What argonaut did Aphrodite rescue?

A

Butes

64
Q

Who persuaded Poseidon to immortalize Ino and Melicertes as the sea deities Leucothea and Palaemon?

A

Aphrodite

65
Q

Who did Aphrodite rescue as he was swimming toward the Sirens’ island and carried him off to Lilybaeum?

A

Butes

66
Q

Who did Aphrodite persuade to make Ino and Melicertes sea deites?

A

Poseidon

67
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What animal did Aphrodite become when escaping Typhon?

A

a fish

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