Aphrodite Flashcards
Who were Aphrodite’s parents?
Zeus and Dione
What is Hesiod’s version of Aphrodite’s birth?
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
What does aphros mean?
sea foam
Who was called Cythereia?
Aphrodite
The early Lycian poet Olen made both Aphrodite and Eros children of what…
Eileithyia
Who did Aphrodite marry?
Hephaestus
Who did Aphrodite have affairs with?
Ares
Who told Hephaestus about Aphrodite’s affair?
Helius
How did Hephaestus get revenge on Aphrodite?
He trapped them in bed and made them ridiculed by the other gods
Who were the children of Aphrodite and Ares?
Eros, Deimus (Fear), Phobus (Panic), and Harmonia
Which god’s advances did Aphrodite repulse?
Hermes
In one of these the love-goddess was a surprisingly reluctant partner…
Hermes
Who helped Hermes get Aphrodite?
Zeus
How did Zeus help Hermes get Aphrodite?
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
Who was the child of Hermes and Aphrodite?
Hermaphroditus
Who was the child of Aphrodite and Dionysus?
Priapus
Who was the child of Aphrodite and Poseidon?
Eryx
Who was the child of Aphrodite and Butes?
Eryx
Name the daughters of Cinyras?
Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia, and Myrrha
Why did Aphrodite punish Myrrha more harshly than her sisters?
her mother rashly boasted that the girl was more beautiful than Aphrodite
How did Aphrodite punish Myrrha?
made her fall in love with her father
Who was the child of Myrrha and Cinyras?
Adonis
What infant did Aphrodite love?
Adonis
What did Aphrodite do with Adonis?
put him in a chest and gave him to persephone
Who settled the dispute of Adonis?
Calliope
Who refused to give Adonis back to Aphrodite?
Persephone
What did Calliope decree about Adonis?
He would spend part of each year with each goddess
How did Aphrodite punish Calliope?
causing the death of her son Orpheus
How did Adonis die?
he was killed by a boar
What grew from Adonis’s blood
anemone flower
Who saw Anchises as he tended his herds on Mount Ida and fell madly in love with him?
Aphrodite
Why did Aphrodite fall in love with Anchises?
because zeus was annoyed she was always making the other gods fall in love with mortals and then laughing at them
To seduce Anchises, who did Aphrodite pretend to be?
a daughter of King Otreus
Who was the child of Anchises and Aphrodite?
Aeneas
What nymphs reared Aeneas?
Idaean nymphs
Because he told others the real parentage of his son, Zeus…
Anchises
Which other Trojan besides Aeneas did Aphrodite favor?
Paris
Who judges the beauty contest between the goddesses?
Paris
Who did Paris award the apple to?
Aphrodite
What bribe did Aphrodite offer Paris?
the hand of Helen
Which side of the Trojan war did Aphrodite pick?
Trojans
while saving Aeneas, who wounded Aphrodite?
Diomedes
Who knocked Aphrodite down while she was aiding her lover Ares?
Athena
Who did Aphrodite lend her belt?
Hera
Who arranged a meeting for Achilles and Helen?
Thetis and Aphrodite
Who gave Melanion the apples?
Aphrodite
Who turned Atalanta and Melanion into Lions?
Aphrodite
Who transformed Selemnus into an Achaean river when he died for love?
Aphrodite
When Zeus became a swan, who pursued him in the shape of an eagle so that he might plausibly take refuge in Nemesis’ lap?
Aphrodite
Who helped Zeus win Nemesis?
Aphrodite
Because Hippolytus wanted to remain a virgin, what did Aphrodite do?
cause Phaedra to fall in love with him
When Tyndareiis, king of Argos, failed to honor Aphrodite to her satisfaction, what did she arrange?
that his three daughters, Helen,
Clytemnestra, and Timandra, should all betray their husbands
Who punished the Lemnian women?
Aphrodite
Why did Aphrodite let the Argonauts and Lemnian women fall in love?
because Hephaestus was the patron god of Lemnos
Who did Aphrodite make Clio fall in love with?
Pierus
Aphrodite later carried off who to be the night warder of her shrine?
Phaethon (Eos’ son by Cephalus)
How did Aphrodite punish Helius?
made him fall in love with Leucothoe
Who caused Glaucus’s mares to eat him?
Aphrodite
Aphrodite adopted orphaned daughters of what man?
Pandaurus
what happened to the orphaned daughters of Pandaurus after Aphrodite took them to Olympus?
the harpies snatched them
Who rescued Aeneas’ first wife, Creusa, from slavery among the
Greeks?
Aphrodite
Who did Aphrodite rescue from slavery among the greeks?
Creusa
What argonaut did Aphrodite rescue?
Butes
Who persuaded Poseidon to immortalize Ino and Melicertes as the sea deities Leucothea and Palaemon?
Aphrodite
Who did Aphrodite rescue as he was swimming toward the Sirens’ island and carried him off to Lilybaeum?
Butes
Who did Aphrodite persuade to make Ino and Melicertes sea deites?
Poseidon
What animal did Aphrodite become when escaping Typhon?
a fish
