Chapter 9 - Aphrodite and Eros

Key Ideas

Aphrodite Urania

Celestial Aphrodite

Aphrodite Pandemos

the Aphrodite of all people

Where are the shrines dedicated to Aphrodite located?

Corinth

Three Graces, Three Charities

the goddesses of charm

What is Aphrodite’s special bird?

a dove

Priapus

a god of fertility who is known as ithyphallic

ithyphallic

having an erect penis

Pygamlion

a sculptor who carved Galatea

Galatea

a statue of Aphrodite

Who made a play about Pygmalion?

Shaw

What musical was adapted from the play Pygamlion?

My Fair Lady

Edward Burne-Jones

a painter who made a four-part series called Pygmalion and Galatea

Adonis

Aphrodite’s lover

Attis

the consort of Cybele

Cybele

the great mother goddess of Phrygia

Phrygia

a kingdom

symposium

a meeting

Artistophanes

the dinner guest in Plato’s Symposium who gave a speech on the nature of love and tells a myth in which there were originally three sexes

What is the name of the Graces, who attend Aphrodite?

the Charities

What is the best-known sculpture of Aphrodite surviving from antiquity?

the Venus de Milo

Aphrodite Pandemos means…

Aphrodite of All People

Who was the sculptor who created a sculpture which came to life?

Pygmalion

In what city were temple prostitutes kept in Aphrodite’s honor?

Corinth

What are often associated with Aphrodite?

doves