This document provides information about Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. It discusses her birth from sea foam, her lovers including Mars and Adonis, and her descendants including Cupid. It also covers Western artistic depictions of Aphrodite through different historical styles and the use of her figure to represent ideals of beauty. Vocabulary related to the human body and different art styles is presented.

1. Bodies and looks Didactic unit for 3º ESO-PALE virgi.pla IES Serpis

5. ...Uranos came longing for love and lay on Gaia spreading himself upon her. Then Chronus, their son, when Uranos was nor aware, took with his right hand a sharp sickle from inside his mother Gaia and with the left his father’s genitals and cut off them with speed and decision and threw them away landing on the sea. The male member was swept far away a long time and a white foam rose around it. From the mix of the immortal flesh and the foam-sea arose a marvellous maiden, Aphrodite. Then she headed to Kythera and from there to Kypros where grass grew up wheresoever she stepped. For all that she was called Aphrogeneia, born from the foam; Eustephanos, well crowned; Kythereia, because she reached Kythera; Kyprogenes, because she was born near Cypros, and Philommedes, because she sprang from the genitals...

6. -She is a WOMAN. It is a SCULPTURE -She is NAKED but covering some parts of her body.She is a CHASTE woman. -Next to her there is a vase and a litle CUPID -Classic beauty-cannon : proportioned body What are you seeing? She is a Greek goddess:she is the goddess of LOVE and CHARM BEAUTY SEXUALITY SEDUCTION ATRACTION JEALOUSY RESENTFUL PASION YOUTH APHRODITE DESIRE

7. What do they have in common? 1 2 3 4 5 6

9. What do they suggest to you? 1879 1863 1485 1636 1520 1 2 3 4 5

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16. Instructional activities: 1- Describe these pictures, try to identify the period and the artistic styles: 2- Make sentences using similarities and differences expressions. 3- Look up synonyms and antonyms for: beauty, young, charm... 4- Complete the chart: pasion desire seduction atraction adjective verb noun