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Bible Ap world week 5 - part 2 Timeline Quiz: HIST 1702
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- Etymology
○ Hesiod: Aphos or foam, Cronus castration
○ Likely not of Indo-European origin
○ Connected to Near Eastern fertility goddess Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte
- Spheres of Influence
What is the etymology and sphere
○ Sexual attraction and reproduction
of influence of Aphrodite/Venus?
○ Sometimes indifferent, sometimes terrible power
- Famous temples in Cyprus and Cythera
○ Cyprus was frequent point of transmission of eastern culture
○ Temple prostitution
- Married to Hephaestus (rarely faithful)
, - Epithets:
○ Cyprus, Cytherea (after famous temples)
○ Chrysea= golden
○ Philomiedes= laughter loving
○ Kallipygos= with beautiful butt
What are Aphrodite's epithets and
- Attributes
attributes?
○ Often depicted naked or partially naked
○ Bathing
○ Doves/swans
○ Eros/Cupid
○ Born from the sea (sea shells, foam, etc)
- Sappho: Poet c. 600 BCE
Who is Sappho? And what is the ○ From the island of Lesbos = Lesbian (wrote a lot of erotic poetry
hymn of Aphrodite? about women)
- "The 10th Muse'
-Birth/growth/life principle
- Hestia/Vesta: hearth and home (very important in Rome with Vestal
Virgins)
What are the gendered
- Aphrodite/Venus: love, sex, reproduction
associations? What are the female
- Hera/Juno: birth and marriage
goddesses generally associated
- Artemis/Diana: wildlife, human and animal reproduction
with?
- Demeter/Ceres: Fertility with crops
- EXCEPTION: Athena, goddess of strategic war and wisdom. Although
responsible for certain feminine activities (weaving)
Do we know how Greek women No
viewed any gods, male or female?
- Venus Pudica type
- "Chaste" Venus, covering herself
Who is Cnidian Aphrodite?
- Thought to be the most beautiful statue in the Greek world
- Original lost, countless copies made
- Eros (Roman: Cupid)
- Erotic love
Who is Eros/Cupid?
- Dangerous force, overwhelms rationality
- Depicted as either a primordial god, or the son of Aphrodite
, Symposium is an upper class drinking party. (Sym=together, pot=drink)
Topic of the day: the power of Eros
• Eros conceived as the god, the concept of the power of erotic love,
and a force of inspiration
Setting: Agathon's house
What is a symposium? What is the
• Nested narrative: Apollodorus tells the story that he heard from
topic during "Plato's Symposium?"
Aristodemus (who was actually at the party 30 or 40 years ago)
•"Aristodemus did not recollect all that was said, nor do I recollect all
that he related to me; but I will tell you what I
thought most worthy of remembrance..."
Already biased story
Phaedrus:
• Eros is the eldest and most honored of the gods (cites Hesiod)
• Eros conveys the greatest benefits to humans, inspires men to gain
honor (cites Achilles + Patroclus)
Pausanias:
• There are two Aphrodites: Urania (daughter of Uranus, 'heavenly') and
Pandemos (for the people, 'common')
• 'Higher' love associated with intellectual thought and philosophy; 'the
What are the speeches given at love of the soul'
Plato's Symposium? • Homosexuality is a purer kind of love?
Aristophanes:
• The origins of the sexes
• Humans used to have 'double bodies'; two humans merged back to
back, traveled by cartwheeling
Male-Male
Female-Female
Male-Female
• Zeus, fearing their power, forcibly separated the double bodies
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Bible Ap world week 5 - part 2 Timeline Quiz: HIST 1702
71 terms 10 terms 37 terms
averycogburn25 Preview cale_francisco Preview asher3092
Terms in this set (76)
- Etymology
○ Hesiod: Aphos or foam, Cronus castration
○ Likely not of Indo-European origin
○ Connected to Near Eastern fertility goddess Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte
- Spheres of Influence
What is the etymology and sphere
○ Sexual attraction and reproduction
of influence of Aphrodite/Venus?
○ Sometimes indifferent, sometimes terrible power
- Famous temples in Cyprus and Cythera
○ Cyprus was frequent point of transmission of eastern culture
○ Temple prostitution
- Married to Hephaestus (rarely faithful)
, - Epithets:
○ Cyprus, Cytherea (after famous temples)
○ Chrysea= golden
○ Philomiedes= laughter loving
○ Kallipygos= with beautiful butt
What are Aphrodite's epithets and
- Attributes
attributes?
○ Often depicted naked or partially naked
○ Bathing
○ Doves/swans
○ Eros/Cupid
○ Born from the sea (sea shells, foam, etc)
- Sappho: Poet c. 600 BCE
Who is Sappho? And what is the ○ From the island of Lesbos = Lesbian (wrote a lot of erotic poetry
hymn of Aphrodite? about women)
- "The 10th Muse'
-Birth/growth/life principle
- Hestia/Vesta: hearth and home (very important in Rome with Vestal
Virgins)
What are the gendered
- Aphrodite/Venus: love, sex, reproduction
associations? What are the female
- Hera/Juno: birth and marriage
goddesses generally associated
- Artemis/Diana: wildlife, human and animal reproduction
with?
- Demeter/Ceres: Fertility with crops
- EXCEPTION: Athena, goddess of strategic war and wisdom. Although
responsible for certain feminine activities (weaving)
Do we know how Greek women No
viewed any gods, male or female?
- Venus Pudica type
- "Chaste" Venus, covering herself
Who is Cnidian Aphrodite?
- Thought to be the most beautiful statue in the Greek world
- Original lost, countless copies made
- Eros (Roman: Cupid)
- Erotic love
Who is Eros/Cupid?
- Dangerous force, overwhelms rationality
- Depicted as either a primordial god, or the son of Aphrodite
, Symposium is an upper class drinking party. (Sym=together, pot=drink)
Topic of the day: the power of Eros
• Eros conceived as the god, the concept of the power of erotic love,
and a force of inspiration
Setting: Agathon's house
What is a symposium? What is the
• Nested narrative: Apollodorus tells the story that he heard from
topic during "Plato's Symposium?"
Aristodemus (who was actually at the party 30 or 40 years ago)
•"Aristodemus did not recollect all that was said, nor do I recollect all
that he related to me; but I will tell you what I
thought most worthy of remembrance..."
Already biased story
Phaedrus:
• Eros is the eldest and most honored of the gods (cites Hesiod)
• Eros conveys the greatest benefits to humans, inspires men to gain
honor (cites Achilles + Patroclus)
Pausanias:
• There are two Aphrodites: Urania (daughter of Uranus, 'heavenly') and
Pandemos (for the people, 'common')
• 'Higher' love associated with intellectual thought and philosophy; 'the
What are the speeches given at love of the soul'
Plato's Symposium? • Homosexuality is a purer kind of love?
Aristophanes:
• The origins of the sexes
• Humans used to have 'double bodies'; two humans merged back to
back, traveled by cartwheeling
Male-Male
Female-Female
Male-Female
• Zeus, fearing their power, forcibly separated the double bodies
