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Aphrodite and Venus
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Now is the time to complete your journey as a quester. Follow the directions that have been given to you and make sure that you have followed the correct maps.
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1. Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of __________, beauty, pleasure, ______ ____________________.
2. Her attributes included a dove, apple, ______________ shell and ______________.
3. Some traditions states that she has ____________ from the foam (__________) of the seam which had gathered around the mutilated parts of _____________, that had been thrown into the sea by Kronos after he had unmanned his father.
4. According to the _______________ views of the nature of Aphrodite, she was the ______________________ of the generative powers of nature, and the _______________ of all living beings.
5. Ancient __________________ furnishes ____________ _______________ in which Aphrodite punished those who neglected her worship or ______________________ _________ ___________, as well as others in which she favoured and protected those who did homage to her and recongnized her sway.
6. She saved ___________ from his contest with Menelaus, but when she endeavoured to rescue her _________ _____________ from the fight, she was pursued by _____________, who wounded her hand.
7. Her faithlessness to ___________________ in her amour with ________, and the manner in which she was caught by the ingenuity of her _______________, are beautifully described in the ___________________.
8. By Ares she became the mother of _____________, ______________, _______________, and, according to later ____________, of Eros and Anteros also.
9. The ancient story ran thus: _____________ had neglected the worship of ______________, and was punished by the goddess with an ________________ _________ for her father.
10. The _________ is also sometimes ___________ as one of her ___________.
1. The poet ______________ said that Aphrodite was born of _________-__________.
2. The latter two had hoped to _________ him with power and _________ in _________, but _____________ offered the love of the most ______________ woman in the __________.
3. In pain she sought out her __________ Ares, the god of war who stood nearby admiring the ____________, and ______________ his ___________ so that she may _____ up to ___________.
4. Elsewhere in Homer's ___________, Aphrodite saves __________ when he is about to be ___________ in a single combat by _______________.
5. The love _____________ made the king's _____________ Medea fall in love with _______________, and Medea proved ____________________ in ______________ ___________.
Now it is time to infiltrate the Roman's adaptations of Aphrodite.
1. In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, _____, beauty, and _________.
2. Venus had two main _________ lovers: her husband ______________ (_______________) and Mars (_______).
3. She also bore with either ___________ or __________, Fortuna (__________) who was the ______________ of luck and fate within __________ ___________.
4. Ultimately, ______ spent his time with ___________ until he was _________ by a ________.
5. Venus warned __________ never to brag about their affair ________ he be _______ by _____________.
6. The __________ Julia was the family that included ___________ ____________, ________________ (Octavian) ____________ and his ________________.
7. This is also the _______________ name for the planet _________, because it is so _________ and __________________ in the night sky.
8. Venus, due to her _____________ ___________ and ____________ nature, was often ______________ nude.
9. Most sculptures of ___________ resembled a close _____________ to the ___________________ of Cnidus.
10. Venus continued to be a _____________ ___________ matter for artists through ____________ and the ________________ even into the 20th ___________ ________.
1. Worship of Venus was ___________ around her major ___________, primarily during two _________ festivals that celebrated the bountiful ______________.
2. On April ________, _________ B.C.E., another temple was _____________ to Venus, this one located outside the ____________ gate on the ____________________ Hill for purposes for _________________________ the Roman defeat at the _______________ of __________ ______________________.
3. Syncretistic epithets attributed to Venus were __________ __________________ ( of "Venus the Purifier"), a fusion of Venus with the ______________ water goddess __________________, likely resulting from the stature of Venus erected near the ___________ ______________, Rome's sewer system.
4. Considering the idea that ____________ was the ______________________ of beauty and _________________, it is not surprising that ____________ had been a common subject of _________________, ______________, and _____________ art alike.
5. Despite the fact that Venus is no longer ___________ ___________________, she has had a lasting impact upon _______________ world.
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