Greek Mythology:

1. Greek Mythology: A crash course in the crazy lives of the kooky Greek gods and other such things

2. In the Beginning… There was CHAOS! ---No really, there was. The first god in Greek mythology was Chaos. A shapeless, dark, mysterious god who gave birth to Gaea (the Earth) Gaea then gave birth (?) to Uranus (the sky). They married (?) and she then gave birth to the first “gods”: The Titans!

3. …and then a son kills a father In the first (of many) cases of a son taking power from his father, Cronus, the youngest titan born to Uranus and Gaea, castrates his father and becomes ruler of the gods with his sister-wife, Rhea (again, a common theme in Greek mythology)

4. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown… • Cronus, fearing for his life—thinking that one of his children may off him in much the same way he deposed of his own father—eats every child that Rhea gives birth to. • yum

5. …and history repeats itself. • Rhea, tired of seeing her children eaten shortly after birth by her husband (uh, duh), saves her youngest son by feeding Uranus a stone wrapped in clothing instead. • She hides her new son, Zeus, until he grows to adulthood. • He returns to Mt. Olympus angry.

6. Be Careful What You Eat • Zeus makes Cronus drink a poison that forces him to throw up. Cronus then vomits Zeus’s grown brothers and sisters (?) in full clothing and armor. • Zeus and his siblings wage war against Cronus and the Titans, eventually defeating them and casting them into the pit of Tartarus.

7. The Olympian Gods

8. The Big Twelve • Zeus • Hera • Poseidon • Hades • Demeter • Apollo • Artemis • Hephaestus • Athena • Hermes • Aphrodite • Ares

9. The Family Tree

10. Some Final God Shots

11. Oedipus *The Man *The Myth *The Riddle *The Complex

12. Riddle Me This • What walks on four legs in the morning • Two legs at noon • And three legs in the evening?

13. Tiresias • The Blind Prophet • The Man/The Woman