Download gods and goddesses of ancient greece

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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Mythology is
EVERYWHERE!
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 fearcomes from Phobus, the god of fear
gods and goddesses
of ancient Greece
Zeus
ruler of all
Greek gods
Apollo
Zeus’ son, god
of light and
the muses
Hades
god of the
dead
Proteus
sea god
Ares
god of war
Dionysus
god of wine
and
agriculture
Charon
god of the
underworld
Chronos
god of time
Eros
god of love
Hephaistos
god of fire
Hermes
messenger
god
Pan
god of the
shepherds
Hera
married to
Zeus, goddess
of women and
marriage
Aphrodite
goddess of
love
Artemis
goddess of the
hunt
Athena
goddess of
widsom
Persephone
goddess of the
underworld
Phaethon
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
DAWN had opened her
courts full of rosy light….
SON & SUN
Phaethon:
 rash
 insecure
 foolish
 repentant (but too late)
Sun:
 father of Phaethon
 rides through the skies giving light
 kind and “loving”
 wants to prove himself
STORY DETAILS
Styx—river of the oath of the gods
Phaethon’s request: “Dad, may I have the keys to the car?”
Natural Event:
The rising and setting of the sun
FOUR NATURAL
OCCURRENCES
Sunrise
“Consider the road. It rises
up from the sea so steeply
that the horses can hardly
climb it, fresh though they
are in the early morning.”
Sun at noonday
“In midheaven it is so high
that even I do not like to
look down.”
Sunset
“Worst of all is the descent,
so precipitous that the seagods waiting to receive me
wonder how I can avoid
falling headlong.”
Sun rising daily
“Just for a day, a single
day, let me have your car to
drive.”
CONCLUSION
***His downfall is Fallacies:
• Gods rule the earth.
caused by his
• The sun god is able to have children.
rashness and pride! • There are beasts in the sky waiting
to attack the chariot.
• The seasons are gatekeepers.
• Due to Phaëthon’s folly, the world
was set on fire by the sun.
The major flaw of the Greek
gods…
PRIDE!