Aphrodite and Venus

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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Aphrodite 1

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 ___________. 

Aphrodite 2

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. 

Venus 1

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 ___________ ________.

Venus 2

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.