Aphrodite's Mythical Origins

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This quiz corresponds to the lecture on the Mythical Origins of Aphrodite.

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Who is the source most commonly referred to concerning Aphrodite's birth? *

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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Pausanias' Description of Greece

Hesiod's Theogony

Homer's Iliad

True False: upon landing ashore Aphrodite inspired the ground itself to spring forth life.

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True

False

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True or False: despite Aphrodite being shown as bad in battle, She was worship by some as a goddess of war or as having a dominion in war.

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False

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True or False: Eros was always the child of Aphrodite in every myth. *

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True

False

What were the two places most commonly named as the birthplace of Aphrodite? *

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Beroe/Beirut

Kythera/Kithira

Rhodes

Kypros/Cyprus

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There are two camps for where Aphrodite emerged from, which two are they? *

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She is an amalgam of near east and Semitic goddess

She descends from the proto-Indo-European dawn goddess

She is a goddess of African traditions

She is an amalgam of Egyptian and Native American goddess from when the Pharos crossed the Atlantic.

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What/who was Aphrodite born of according to Hesiod? *

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Zeus and Dione

Ouranos' severed phallus

A falling comet

Eros and Himeros

If you were going to add to the mythology of Aphrodite and extrapolate it as a metaphor for the origins of life on Earth, how might you explain it? *

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