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Greek God Business Card Project
I have provided a list of gods that were believed by the Ancient Greeks to powers over all aspects of life, death and nature.
You are to select one (1) of the Greek gods and based on what you discover about them you create a business card for him/her. A
business card is something used to attract someone’s business or advise others to contact them via phone, e-mail or regular mail if and
when they are wanted or needed. Usually business cars have contact information such as address, phone number or e-mail address
and even images or pictures. Sometimes cards have catchy phrases to make people remember them over others. Your business card
should have all of that and maybe more as you try and draw business or attention to the god. Create a hand written, rough copy of
your business card with beginner ideas and lay out until we go to the computer lab at a later date to complete the final draft. Do not
allow your project to be lame it will count against you. Since these gods were worshipped during ancient times do not include e-mail
or phone numbers as contact information. There are many other ways to contact people without phones or other electronic methods.
This is an example of what a business card looks like.
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[1] Zeus: The king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle,
bull and the oak. The son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the youngest of his siblings. He was married to Hera in most traditions,
although at the oracle of Dodona his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. Accordingly,
he is known for his erotic escapades, including one pederastic relationship with Ganymede. His trysts resulted in many famous
offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and
the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera he is usually said to have sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus. Aside from forced transformation,
Zeus is known to punish those who veered out of his pleasure with lightning bolts. After reaching manhood, Zeus forced Cronus to
disgorge first the stone (which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, the Omphalos) then his
siblings in reverse order of swallowing. In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus
cut Cronus' stomach open. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, from their
dungeon in Tartarus (The Titans; he killed their guard, Campe. As gratitude, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt, or
lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia.) Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Gigantes,
Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the Titanomachy. The defeated Titans were
then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans that fought against Zeus, was punished by
having to hold up the sky. After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades, by
drawing lots: Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth,
Gaia, could not be claimed; she was left to all three, each according to their capabilities, which explains why Poseidon was the "earthshaker" (the god of earthquakes) and Hades claimed the humans that died. (See also: Penthus) Gaia resented the way Zeus had treated
the Titans, because they were her children. Soon after taking the throne as king of the gods, Zeus had to fight some of Gaia's other
children, the monsters Typhon and Echidna. He vanquished Typhon and trapped him under a mountain, but left Echidna and her
children alive.
[2] Athena: the shrewd companion of Heroes and the Goddess of Heroic endeavour. She would also come to be known as the
goddess of wisdom as philosophy became applied to cult in the later fifth century.[1] She remained the patroness of weaving especially
and other crafts (Athena Ergane) and the more disciplined side of war, where she led the battle (Athena Promachos)[2]. Athena's
wisdom also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus.She is attended by an owl, and is often
accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike, which in established icons she offers upon her extended hand. Wearing a goatskin
breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father, Zeus[3], she is often shown helmeted and with a shield bearing the Gorgon
Medusa's head, the gorgoneion, a votive gift of Perseus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, and appears in Greek mythology as a
helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus. In classical myth she never had a consort or lover, and thus was often
known as Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), hence her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. In a
remnant of archaic myth, she was the mother of Erichthonius by the attempted rape by Hephaestus, which failed.[4] In her role as a
protector of the city, Athena was worshiped throughout the Greek world as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). She had a special
relationship with Athens, as is shown by the etymological connection of the names of the goddess and the city. [5] Athena is most
commonly described as the daughter of Zeus. It is also often implied that she is his first-born child, which accords her special status:
the weapons for which she is so famous are the thunderbolt and the aegis, which she and he share exclusively. Medusa, unlike her two
sister-Gorgons, came to be thought of during the fifth century as mortal and extremely beautiful. But she had sex with — or was raped
by — Poseidon in a temple of Athena. Upon discovering the desecration of her temple, Athena changed Medusa's form to match that
of her sister Gorgons as punishment. Medusa's hair turned into snakes, her lower body was transformed, and meeting her gaze would
turn any living creature to stone.In one version of the Tiresias myth, Tiresias stumbled upon Athena bathing, and was blinded by her
nakedness.[16] To compensate him for his loss, she sent serpents to lick his ears, which gave him the gift of prophecy. Athena guided
Perseus in his quest to behead Medusa. She instructed Heracles to skin the Nemean Lion by using its own claws to cut through its
thick hide. She also helped Heracles to defeat the Stymphalian Birds, and to navigate the underworld so as to capture
Cerberos.Odysseus' cunning and shrewd nature quickly won Athena's favor, though in the realistic epic mode she is largely confined
to aiding him only from afar, as by implanting thoughts in his head, during his journey home from Troy. It is not until he washes up on
the shore of an island where Nausicaa is washing her clothes that Athena can actually arrive herself to provide more tangible
assistance. She appears in Nausicaa's dreams to ensure that the princess rescues Odysseus and eventually sends him to Ithaca. Athena,
herself, appears in disguise to Odysseus upon his arrival. She initially lies and tells him Penelope, his wife, has remarried and that
Odysseus is believed to be dead, though Odysseus lies to her, seeing through her disguise. Pleased with his resolve and shrewdness,
she reveals herself to him and tells him everything he needs to know in order to win back his kingdom. She disguises him as an elderly
man so that he will not be noticed by the Suitors or Penelope and she helps Odysseus defeat his suitors and end the feud against their
relatives.
[3] Aphrodite: Greek goddess of love, lust, and beauty. "Foam-arisen" Aphrodite was born of the sea foam near Paphos, Cyprus after
Cronus cut off Uranus' testicles and threw them behind him into the sea. Hesiod's Theogony described that the genitals "were carried
over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew" to become Aphrodite. Aphrodite had no
childhood: in every image and each reference she is born adult, nubile, and infinitely desirable. Aphrodite, in many of the late
anecdotal myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is one of the few gods of the
Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband. Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of
the Hellenic deities; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war. In Homer's
Iliad she surges into battle to save her son, Aeneas, but abandons Ares (in fact, drops him as she flies through the air) when she herself
is hurt (Ares does much the same thing). And she is the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she start the whole affair
by offering Helen of Sparta to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed
with desire to have her—which is Aphrodite's realm. Her domain may involve love, but it does not involve romance; rather, it tends
more towards lust, the human irrational longing. Aphrodite was jealous of the beauty of a mortal woman named Psyche. She asked
Eros to use his golden arrows to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest man on earth. Eros agreed but then fell in love with
Psyche on his own, or by accidentally pricking himself with a golden arrow. Meanwhile, Psyche's parents were anxious that their
daughter remained unmarried. They consulted an oracle who told them she was destined for no mortal lover, but a monster that lived
on top of a particular mountain. Psyche was resigned to her fate and climbed to the top of the mountain. There, Zephyrus, the west
wind, gently floated her downwards. She entered a cave on the appointed mountain, surprised to find it full of jewelry and finery. Eros
visited her every night in the cave and they made passionate love; he demanded only that she never light any lamps because he did not
want her to know who he was (having wings made him distinctive). Her two sisters, jealous of Psyche, convinced her to do so one
night and she lit a lamp, recognizing him instantly. A drop of hot lamp oil fell on Eros' chest and he awoke, then fled.When Psyche
told her two jealous elder sisters what had happened, they rejoiced secretly and each separately walked to the top of the mountain and
did as Psyche described her entry to the cave, hoping Eros would pick them instead. Zephyrus did not pick them and they fell to their
deaths at the base of the mountain.
4] Poseidon: The god of the sea, as well as of horses and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. Poseidon is the brother of Zeus and
Hades and has many children. There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, though he lost the
contest for Athens to Athena. Poseidon was a son of Cronus and Rhea. In most accounts, he is swallowed by Cronus at birth.
However in some versions of the story, he, like his brother Zeus, did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten
by Cronus. He was saved by his mother Rhea, who is said to have fed a baby horse to Cronus, serving the same purpose as the rock in
Zeus's case.In some variants, Poseidon was raised by the Telchines on Rhodes, just as Zeus was raised by the Korybantes on
Crete.When the world was divided in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. His wife was
Amphitrite, a nymph and ancient sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and Doris. Poseidon was also thought to have raped Aethra thus
fathering the famed Theseus. In an archaic myth, Poseidon once pursued Demeter. She spurned his advances, turning herself into a
mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her. Their child was
a horse, Arion, which was capable of human speech. Poseidon had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon,
begetting Hippothoon. Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis. Poseidon
rescued Amymone from a lecherous satyr and then fathered a child, Nauplius, by her. A mortal woman named Tyro was married to
Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One
day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union were born Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.
With Medusa, Poseidon had sexual intercourse on the floor of a temple to Athena. Medusa was changed into a monster. When she was
later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck. After having sex with Caeneus, Poseidon fulfilled
her request and changed her into a man.
[5] Apollo: the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a bringer of death-dealing plague. Apollo is son of
Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of the chaste huntress Artemis, who took the place of Selene in some myths as goddess of the
moon. Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow. Other attributes of his included the kithara (an advanced version of
the common lyre), the plectrum and the sword. Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the
Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured. Apollo
aided Paris in the killing of Achilles by guiding the arrow of his bow into Achilles' heel. One interpretation of his motive is that it was
in revenge for Achilles' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.