Classical Mythology Course


Odysseus among the Sirens



Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • identify Aphrodite based on her attributes and companions

Married to the god Hephaestus, but her consort is Ares.

  • describe her main powers and fields of interest

Goddess of beauty and desire. Causes gods/goddess and animals to mate. Even tricked her father Zeus to mate with a mortal. However, her father being omnipotent saw through her trickery gave her a taste of her own medicine. Zeus tricked her into having her fall in love with a mortal man named Anchise. She bore him an offspring, Aeneas.

  • compare her interactions with Adonis with myths of Isis and Inanna
  • tell the story of Aphrodite's birth and her romance with Anchises

Born from seafoam.

  • offer a structualist reading of the Hymn to Aphrodite

Hymn to Aphrodite by Homer.

Aphrodite's birth and origins

Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and her son Eros (love).

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Apollo flaying Marsyas
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Aphrodite's birth

Aphrodite vs. Zeus

Aphrodite and Adonis

Aphrodite and Ares

Aphrodite's characteristics

References

    Classical Mythology Course


    Odysseus among the Sirens



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