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Comprehensive Guide to Early Hum... 10.1 History Unit Test History Quiz 1
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1 Hestia gender association 2 Plato's Symposium
3 Hera gender association 4 Aphrodite Etymology
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Hestia gender association hearth+home
Hera gender association birth+marriage
Aphrodite gender association love/sex/reproduction
Artemis gender association wildlife
Demeter gender association crops
aphros = 'foam'
Aphrodite Etymology Not Greek
Connected to Near Eastern fertility goddess Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte
-sexual attraction
-reproduction
Aphrodite Influence -famous temples in Cyprus and Cytherea
-temple prosititution
-married to Hephaestus
Cypris/Cytherea (after her temples)
Chrysea = 'golden'
Aphrodite Epithets
Philomeides = 'laughter-loving'
Kallipygos = 'with beautiful butt'
-naked/partially so
-bathing
Aphrodite Attributes -doves/swans
-Eros/cupid
-born from the sea
-600 BCE poet
-from Lesbos
Sappho -'10th Muse'
-homoerotic poetry
-Hymn to Aphrodite
Venus Pudica 'Chaste' Venus, covering herself
-Venus Pudica
Cnidian Aphrodite -thought to be most beautiful statues in the Greek world
-many copies made
-erotic love
Eros/Cupid -dangerous/irrational force
-primordial god and/or son of Aphrodite