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It’s Monday! Have out your biography , a pen or pencil , and bring your literature book.

It’s Monday! Have out your biography , a pen or pencil , and bring your literature book. Christian Biography Project. Mythology is EVERYWHERE!. Descriptive Mythology. titanic - having great size, strength, power, or intellect- from the Titans, the first gods

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It’s Monday! Have out your biography , a pen or pencil , and bring your literature book.

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  1. It’s Monday!Have out your biography, a pen or pencil, and bring your literature book.

  2. Christian Biography Project

  3. Mythology is EVERYWHERE!

  4. Descriptive Mythology • titanic- having great size, strength, power, or intellect- from the Titans, the first gods • mercurial- a quick -witted, changeable, fickle- from Mercury the messenger god • herculean- adjective meaning "difficult, requiring great strength or courage"- from the Greek hero Hercules • Junoesque- objective meaning stately and queenlike- from Juno, queen of the Roman gods • odyssey- an extended journey- from Odysseus, who wandered many years trying to get home from the Trojan War • lethal- fatal, deadly, suggestive of death- from the Lethe River, the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld • cloth- fabric- from Clotho, the fate who spun the thread of life • plutonium- a radioactive chemical element- named for Pluto, god of the underworld • Europe- a continent- europa, one of Zeus' lovers, gave this name to the continent • panic- a sudden fear- comes from Pan, the god of fields and woods, who sometimes caused a groundless fear among mortals • phobia- an irrational or persistent fear- comes from Phobus, the god of fear

  5. gods and goddesses of ancient Greece

  6. Zeus

  7. ruler of all Greek gods

  8. Apollo

  9. Zeus’ son, god of light and the muses

  10. Hades

  11. god of the dead

  12. Proteus

  13. sea god

  14. Ares

  15. god of war

  16. Dionysus

  17. god of wine and agriculture

  18. Charon

  19. god of the underworld

  20. Chronos

  21. god of time

  22. Eros

  23. god of love

  24. Hephaistos

  25. god of fire

  26. Hermes

  27. messenger god

  28. Pan

  29. god of the shepherds

  30. Hera

  31. married to Zeus, goddess of women and marriage

  32. Aphrodite

  33. goddess of love

  34. Artemis

  35. goddess of the hunt

  36. Athena

  37. goddess of widsom

  38. Persephone

  39. goddess of the underworld

  40. Phaethon

  41. MYTHS • Myths: • stories about mortals and gods • from Greeks & Romans • present universal themes,teach virtues, and warn against vices • Ovid: • popular Roman poet • wrote Metamorphoses • Edith Hamilton: • translated story from Greek to English

  42. DAWN had opened her courts full of rosy light….

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