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Title: Greek Mythology


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Greek Mythology
  • Lecture 1
  • A brief preview of what we will learn this
    semester!

2
What is Myth?
  • Derived from the Greek word mythos meaning
    word, speech, tale, or story.
  • May be written or spoken, but could also be
    conveyed through painting, sculpture, music,
    dance, or theatre
  • Stories that have been handed down through many
    generations
  • Myth is a term for stories primarily concerned
    with the gods and humankinds relations with
    them.
  • Myth is intertwined with religion.

3
The Olympian Gods
4
Zeus (Jupiter)
  • Epithets- aegis-bearing, high thundering, cloud
    gathering,
  • Epithets- A term used to characterize a person or
    thing
  • King of the gods, god of the sky, weather, and
    justice
  • Attributes- Lightning bolt, aegis, oak, eagle
  • Son of Cronos and Rhea

5
Poseidon (Neptune)
Hades (Pluto)
  • Division of Cosmos Underworld
  • Epithets- Unseen one, Zeus, Chthonius ,
    Polyxenos, Necron Soter
  • Dis/Pluto, Ploutos- wealth
  • God of death and the dead
  • Took Persephone as wife
  • Passive rather than evil
  • Division of Cosmos Sea
  • Epithets- earth shaker, Savior of sailors, Bull
    of the sea
  • God of water, earthquakes, and horses
  • Associated with the Trident
  • Son of Cronos and Rhea
  • Married to Amphitrite Rough, stern, and
    ferociously violent

6
Hera(Juno)
Demeter (Ceres)
  • Queen of the gods, wife of Zeus
  • Goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth
  • Epithets- ox-eyed, white-armed
  • Peacock
  • Daughter of Cronos and Rhea
  • De meter mother earth
  • Deo, Ceres Cereal
  • Goddess of Agriculture, harvest, fertility of the
    earth
  • Attributes torch, sheaf of wheat, poppy,
    cornucopia
  • Daughter of Cronos and Rhea
  • Mother of Persephone

7
Athena(Minerva)
  • Epithets- Nike, Ergane, Hippias, gray-eyed,
    bright-eyed
  • Goddess of war
  • Powers and skills- Wisdom, severe moral
    earnestness, weaving
  • Virginity untamed power
  • Daughter of Zeus and Metis
  • Goddess of love, beauty, sex, and procreation
  • Power over all living creatures, including the
    gods
  • Associated with swans, sparrows, doves, and
    dolphins
  • Judgment of Paris
  • Mother of Eros (Cupid)

Aphrodite (Venus)
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Apollo
  • God of prophesy, the arts, archery, young people,
    healing, and plague
  • Epithets- far-darter, Phoebus
  • Attributes- wreath and branch of laurel, bow and
    quiver, raven, and lyre

Artemis (Diana)
  • Bringer of sudden death
  • Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and wild
    animals
  • Virgin, goddess of young people (esp. women) and
    childbirth

Twins of Leto and Zeus
9
Hermes(Mercury)
  • Epithets- Logios, psychopompos
  • God of travelers, boundaries, luck, shepherds and
    cowherds
  • Known as and Inventor and trickster
  • Associated with winged sandals, caduceus
  • Led souls traveling to the underworld
  • Messenger of the gods
  • Son of Zeus and Maia
  • Epithets- Giver of many joys
  • God of vegetation, the vine, wine, revelry, and
    ecstatic release
  • Innate wildness of humanity
  • Associated with Thyrsus, leopard, drinking cup
    and fruit vine
  • Son of Zeus and Semele
  • Known as the foreigner. Was not an original
    Olympian, replaced Hestia

Dionysus (Bacchus)
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Ares(Mars)
Hephaestus (Vulcan)
  • Epithet- The lame one
  • Divine artisan, god of fire
  • Created items of importance
  • Thrown of Mt Olympus
  • Husband of Aphrodite
  • Son of Zeus and Hera
  • God of war and battle
  • Brutal, strong, divine swashbuckler
  • Hotheaded
  • Affair with Aphrodite
  • Son of Zeus and Hera
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