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Sailing the Wine Dark Sea p. 4-8 By John Grosel and Noah Goldstein Character Overview Basic Character Overview Demeter= Harvest Goddess Daughter-Persephone= Hades= Goddess of Spring God of the Underworld and Zeus's brother Story http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/southea st/pprojects/Group%202/%20text/nonni_/nonni/ underworld/images/hades.gif Hades takes Persephone to underworld Demeter unable to find Persephone Zeus tells where she is Goes to Underworld Demeter comes to underworld and makes a deal with Hades Persephone will live with him for four months of the year and the rest are spent with the gods on Mount Olympus Before Persephone left the Underworld Hades Quic kTime™ and a dec ompres sor are needed to see this picture. makes Persephone eat four pomegranate seeds Pomegranate seeds are food of the dead Hades now Persephone’s part time master http://www.failedsuccess.com/images/pomegranate1.jpg Why we have Winter This story is an explanation of why we have four seasons in the year Persephone leaves for the underworld and causes winter to come When she returns, the Earth goes back to normal and Persephone brings back the true beauty of the world How Cahill looks at history through questions Shows how he is thinking Where did the Greeks come from? Why are the Greeks important? Who were the Greeks? Influences Homer Greek Mythology Thomas Cahill Born in New York Attended Taught a Jesuit High School to read Latin and ancient Greek Inspired Intrigued Saw by stories from Homer by arts of ancient Greeks them at Metropolitan Museum of Art Cahill’s Approach Learns history in pieces Tries to dig deeper and gets feelings of the ancient Greeks and how they lived Gets facts Compares and contrasts them Connects them to his own life Facts that he learns become real Cahill’s Task Wants to “resurrect the ancient Greeks” in order to explain myths Wants to explain Greek myths to help give a better understanding of the Greeks Thank You! Please Remember: These Myths are very confusing So please be patient and read carefully