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Greek Mythology:
A crash course in the crazy lives
of the kooky Greek gods and
other such things
In the Beginning…
There was CHAOS!
---No really, there was. The first god in
Greek mythology was Chaos. A
shapeless, dark, mysterious god who
gave birth to Gaea (the Earth)
Gaea then gave birth (?) to
Uranus (the sky). They
married (?) and she then
gave birth to the first “gods”:
The Titans!
…and then a son kills a father
In the first (of many) cases
of a son taking power from
his father, Cronus, the
youngest titan born to
Uranus and Gaea,
castrates his father and
becomes ruler of the gods
with his sister-wife, Rhea
(again, a common theme
in Greek mythology)
Uneasy lies the head that wears
the crown…
• Cronus, fearing for his life—thinking that
one of his children may off him in much
the same way he deposed of his own
father—eats every child that Rhea gives
birth to.
• yum
…and history repeats itself.
• Rhea, tired of seeing her children eaten
shortly after birth by her husband (uh,
duh), saves her youngest son by feeding
Uranus a stone wrapped in clothing
instead.
• She hides her new son, Zeus, until he
grows to adulthood.
• He returns to Mt. Olympus angry.
Be Careful What You Eat
• Zeus makes Cronus drink a poison that
forces him to throw up. Cronus then
vomits Zeus’s grown brothers and sisters
(?) in full clothing and armor.
• Zeus and his siblings wage war against
Cronus and the Titans, eventually
defeating them and casting them into the
pit of Tartarus.
The Olympian Gods
The Big Twelve
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Zeus
Hera
Poseidon
Hades
Demeter
Apollo
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Artemis
Hephaestus
Athena
Hermes
Aphrodite
Ares
The Family Tree
Some Final God Shots
Oedipus
*The Man
*The Myth
*The Riddle
*The Complex
Riddle Me This
• What walks on
four legs in the
morning
• Two legs at noon
• And three legs in
the evening?
Tiresias
• The Blind
Prophet
• The Man/The
Woman