Q 01/05

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty and what?

A) Pleasure and procreation

B) War and strategy

C) The hearth and home

D) The moon and the hunt

Answer · why

A) Pleasure and procreation

In Laconia, oddly, she was also worshipped as a warrior goddess.

Q 02/05

What is Aphrodite's Roman counterpart called?

A) Venus

B) Juno

C) Minerva

D) Diana

Answer · why

A) Venus

The Roman goddess had started out as a deity of gardens, vegetation and springtime.

Q 03/05

In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born from sea foam produced by what?

A) Uranus's severed genitals

B) Poseidon's trident

C) The blood of a Titan

D) A pearl in a shell

Answer · why

A) Uranus's severed genitals

Cronus castrated his father and threw the parts into the sea; the Greek word for foam is aphros.

Q 04/05

In Homer's Iliad, by contrast, Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and which goddess?

A) Dione

B) Hera

C) Leto

D) Thetis

Answer · why

A) Dione

Plato decided the two birth stories belonged to two different Aphrodites, a heavenly one and a common one.

Q 05/05

Aphrodite was married to which god of fire and metalworking?

A) Hephaestus

B) Dionysus

C) Poseidon

D) Prometheus

Answer · why

A) Hephaestus

In the Iliad, though, she seems to be unmarried and the smith god's wife is a goddess called Charis.