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GREEK MYTHOLOGY

GREEK MYTHOLOGY. The theater . Why do we study Greek myths? . No other society has formed our culture more than the Greeks and Romans. Most of the things we do, say, believe, and hope for were shaped by this civilization. .

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY

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  1. GREEK MYTHOLOGY

  2. The theater

  3. Why do we study Greek myths?

  4. No other society has formed our culture more than the Greeks and Romans. Most of the things we do, say, believe, and hope for were shaped by this civilization.

  5. If you understand a group of people’s mythology you can understand their • Beliefs • Fears • Ideals • Hopes • Dreams • Values • Expectations for life

  6. If you understand these myths you can better understand yourself and society.

  7. What is Greek Mythology? • The people of ancient Greece shared stories called myths about the gods, goddesses, and heroes in which they believed. • Each god or goddess was worshipped as a deity and ruled over certain areas of the Greeks’ lives. • These exciting stories explained natural phenomena that could not be explained by their primitive science.

  8. Greeks were the first to form Gods in their own image. • The Immortal Gods were also easier to relate to than previous gods Unlike religious gods today, the Greek gods: • looked and acted human • They married, loved and quarreled; they had love affairs (and children) with both gods and mortals; they also loved games, challenges and trickery

  9. Out of the darkness, Chaos emerges. Out of Chaos, Gaia, or the world emerges.

  10. Gaea gave birth to Uranus, the sky. .

  11. When rain fell on Gaea, plants, animals and rivers were created.

  12. Gaea became Mother Earth, mother off all living things and mother of the first gods.

  13. THE TITANS

  14. Titans are big powerful giants. Gaea had twelve Titans, six boys and six girls

  15. Some were Cyclops- creatures with one eye • Some were Hecatoncheires – each off these monsters had 50 heads and 100 arms.

  16. Uranus did not like these ugly creatures, so he threw them in the underworld. Gaia did not like this so she convinced Cronus to overthrow Uranus.

  17. Cronus and his wife Rhea are now in charge

  18. Cronus is afraid that he will be overthrown, like he overthrew his father . . . So he swallows them

  19. Rhea is not happy so she hides her last child, Zeus, and gives him a rock wrapped in a blanket.

  20. Zeus grows up and frees his siblings: • Hestia, • Demeter, • Hera, • Hades • Poseidon

  21. Together they are able to fight the Titans and win

  22. When Mother Earth was finally peaceful, the rule of the Universe was divided between the 3 brothers

  23. Zeus became the King of Gods & God of Heaven

  24. Poseidon became God of the Sea

  25. Hades became God of the Underworld

  26. Venus Aphrodite

  27. Venus or Aphrodite • Born from foam of the sea • Known as the most beautiful goddess • In charge of love, lust, and grace • Irresistible • Words like aphrodisiac and species of butterflies are named after her

  28. Statue of Aphrodite located in Mexico, City.

  29. The Venus de Milo is now established in the palace of the capital of the civilized world, in the Louvre in Paris .

  30. Alexander the great

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