Week 2/3

Question 1

hieros gamos

Answer 1

sacred marriage of “earth mother” and “sky father”

Question 2

first order in hesiod theogony

Answer 2

chaos, gaia, tartarus, eros, erebus

Question 3

types of children from gaia and uranus

Answer 3

titans, cyclopes, hecatonchires

Question 4

parents of oceanids

Answer 4

oceanus and tethys

Question 5

hyperion (sun god) and theia children

Answer 5

helius (sun god)
selene (moon goddess)
eos (dawn goddess)

Question 6

selene and endymion myth

Answer 6

endymion is a shepherd who selene falls in love with, she sleeps beside him every night and asks zeus to grant him perpetual sleep and youth

Question 7

eos and tithonus

Answer 7

eos falls in love with mortal, asks zeus for immortality, but forgets perpetual youth, he gets old and eos stays away

Question 8

who castrates uranus

Answer 8

kronos

Question 9

from what and where is aphrodite born

Answer 9

the sea foam from the severed genitals around cythera and the island of cyprus

Question 10

what does cronus do to his kids

Answer 10

he fears the prophecy of being overthrown, so he eats his children

Question 11

kronos wife and kids

Answer 11

rhea
demeter, hestia, hera
zeus, posiedon, hades

Question 12

rhea’s plan

Answer 12

she talks to gaia and uranus, gaia tells her to go to island of crete and give cronus a stone to eat instead

Question 13

curetes

Answer 13

rhea’s attendant’s who guard zeus and make noise to drown out his crying

Question 14

where is zeus born

Answer 14

mt dicte in crete
alternate version in arcadia

Question 15

amalthea

Answer 15

zeus’s nymphs with milk of goat

Question 16

erinyes

Answer 16

mighty giants from genital blood

Question 17

meliae

Answer 17

nymphs of ash trees from genital blood

Question 18

divine myth

Answer 18

stories of the actions of gods and the events that follow

Question 19

aphrodite epithets

Answer 19

foam born goddess
cytherea of the beautiful crown
cyprogenes
philommedes (genital loving)

Question 20

aphrodite urania

Answer 20

born from uranus genitals, ethereal and sublime

Question 21

aphrodite pandemos

Answer 21

born from zeus and dione, essentially physical

Question 22

dual nature of aphrodite

Answer 22

urania and pandemos; antitheses, sacred vs. profane love

Question 23

aphrodites son

Answer 23

priapus, fertility god and bringer of luck with big phallus, apotropaic

popular with romans, comic

Question 24

aphrodite’s attendants

Answer 24

graces (charites)
horae (seasons)

Question 25

pygmalion myth

Answer 25

aphrodite enraged with lack of piety in cyprus women, makes them first prostitutes pygmalion disgusted with women, creates statue and falls in love with it, prays for aphrodite to turn into real woman - ovid

Question 26

eros dual tradition

Answer 26

1. early cosmic deity in hesiod theogony 2. son of aphrodite and ares

Question 27

pygmalion and galitea (statue) son

Answer 27

paphos

Question 28

aphrodite and adonis part 1

Answer 28

paphos son cinyras had a daughter myrhha, who fell in love with her father, tricked him into sleeping with her. when he found out he tried to kill her, she fled and prayed and was turned into a myrrh tree, the tree split and she had her son adonis

Question 29

aphrodite and adonis part 2

Answer 29

aphrodite fell in love with adonis and warned him against hunting, but he did not listen and was killed by a boar. his blood became anemone, and ritual to aphrodite were performed annually (ovid)

Question 30

aphrodite and anchises

Answer 30

zeus is upset by aphrodite's ability to control him, makes her fall in love with mortal, she seduces him, but after she reveals herself he begs for immortality because he knows what happens to mortal men that sleep with goddesses. aphrodite tells him he will have a great son aeneas (homeric hymn)

Question 32

symposium of plato

Answer 32

aristophanes and socrates speak on eros

Question 33

socrates stages in the hierarchy of love

Answer 33

philosper moves through these through knowledge of eros sensual generic philosophical

Question 34

cupid and pysche myth

Answer 34

aphrodite is jealous of beauty of pysche, sends cupid but cupid falls in love. When pysche is supposed to be married to serpent she ends up in cupid's palace, sisters are jealous, trick her into looking a cupid's face, he wakes up and gets burnt, venus is mad and sets impossible tasks for pysche, she does them all with help from gods and cupid, they marry ordained by zeus

Question 35

who was socrates instructed in the true nature of eros by

Answer 35

diotima