War of the gods
Can you stop Ares? Solve Aphrodites questions.
DISTRUCTION!!!!!
Game. Let's see how much you know.
1. Hephaestus is married to what unwilling goddess?
A) Athena
B) Herald
C) Artois
D) Aphrodite
2. Hades is best known for kidnapping witch minor goddess?
A) Aphrodite
B) Persephone
C) Hera
D) Isis
3. Poseidon is the god of the sea and ...
A) Rain
B) Fish
C) Earthquakes
D) Sand
E) Horses
4. Who is the king of the gods.
A) Hera
B) Apollo
C) Zeus
D) Dionysus
5. Aphrodite is the goddess of...
A) Love
B) Beauty
C) Childbirth
D) All of the above
E) Only love and beauty
F) Childbirth and love
6. How was Aphrodite born?
A) The rain fell on a rare sea shell and she came out of it.
B) She was a mermaid turned into a human by the goddess Athena.
C) Uranus's male parts fell into the sea, and it was there that the beautiful Goddess of Love and beauty was born
D) The blood of Zeus was shed by Ares and fell onto a beautiful rare flower called datilia and there, Aphrodite was born.
7. Why did Zeus marry Aphrodite to Hephaestus.
A) He wanted Aphrodite for himself but she did not want him.
B) All the gods where fighting over her so Zeus decided to marry her to the ugly Hephaestus.
C) She decided herself.
Aphrodite
Zeus
Ares
Did you do it, or did you FAIL.
Lesson
The myth of Aphrodite and Adonis
The first myth of Aphrodite and Adonis involves the manโs parents and is a story about beauty, love and jealousy. Adonisโ mother was the beautiful Myrrha or Smyrna and his father, King Cinyrus of Cyprus, who was actually the father of Myrrha.
This strange parentage of Adonis came about because Goddess Aphrodite was jealous of Myrrhaโs beauty and caused the girl to unite with her own father.
When Cinyrus found out that he had been tricked, he chased Myrrha with a sword, intending to kill both her and her unborn child. Aphrodite, repenting of her deed, quickly turned the girl into a myrrh tree.
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Aphrodite hid the newborn child, Adonis, in a chest, which she gave in charge to Persephone, queen of the nether world. But when Persephone opened the chest she was beheld by beauty of the baby, so she refused to give him back to Aphrodite, although the goddess of love went down herself to the Underworld to ransom the baby Adonis from the power of the dead.
The dispute between the two Goddesses of love and death was settled by Zeus, who decreed that Adonis should abide with Persephone in the underworld for one part of the year, and with Aphrodite in the upper world for another part. When he stayed in the underworld, it was winter. When he returned, the Earth blossomed into spring and summer.
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In this form of the myth, the contest between Aphrodite and Persephone for the possession of Adonis clearly reflects the struggle between love and death; this is a common subject in Greek Mythology, since we see it in the myth of Persephone and Hades.
The decision of Zeus that Adonis is to spend one part of the year under ground and another part above ground is merely a Greek myth about the notion of the annual disappearance and reappearance, which refers to spring and winter.
Ending quiz
2. Why did Persephone want to keep Adonis?
3. Do you think it was fair for Persephone to not give Adonis back to Aphrodite?
4. What do you think Aphrodite should have done instead of turning the queen into a tree.
5. What lessons have you learned from this story?