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Greek MythologySlide2
Myth
-traditional
story concerning some hero or event with or without a verifiable basis of
fact-Deities or demigods.-Explains some human or natural event. Ex. Why the sun rises.Slide3
1. Basic
Beliefs
Major written
works:2. Theogony- Hesiod
3.The
Illiad
- Homer4.The Odyssey – Homer
Plan Part I: Greek MythSlide4
Ancient Greeks believed (part 1 of 2)
M
ankind was weak and Gods were powerful. They controlled nature. Gods punished excess.
Rituals adapted from Egyptians or were exaggerated heroes.Each city had a god that watched over them and worship was a part of life. Slide5
Ancient Greeks believed (part 2 of 2)
Sacrifices of animals made the gods happy
.
Learn about gods through poetry, songs, storiesGods resembled humans and showed extreme feelings. Slide6Slide7
Theogony summary
http://youtu.be/
o2zYc71i32I
Cartoon Overview of Greek Godshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCm8W5RZesSlide8Slide9
The Trojan War: The Illiad
Eris (discord) not invited. Creates golden apple for the “
fairest.”
Hera (motherhood) , Aphrodite (love), Athena (hunt/ intelligence) fight over it.Zeus chooses Paris of Troy. Paris picks Aphrodite. Aphrodite ‘gives’ Helen, wife of Menelaus (Sparta). Paris captures Helen.Slide10
“The
Judgement
of Paris”Slide11
Menelaus gathers her suitors. Odysseus (Ithica
) pretends to be insane.
Agamemnon (King of Sparta)
sacrifices his daughter.Achilles pouts over woman and bf Patroclus is killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr4ObNAVM7UHector (Prince of Troy) killed and desecrated.Slide12
Odysseus acts insane.Slide13
Paris kills Achilles
with
arrow to heel.
Odysseus’ Trojan horse.Priam is killed, Cassandra (Apollo’s priest) raped, Priam’s daughter sacrificed.Menelaus takes Helen and Trojan woman divided up by Greeks. When he returns home, Agamemnon is killed
by his wife for daughter’s
sacrifice
.Slide14Slide15
Odesseus: The Odyssey
http://youtu.be/PglAFdKSJ_M
http
://youtu.be/BCXRxD85Xc0Slide16
12 ships Lotus flower-- looses will to go homeCyclops (
posidon’s
son)- blind and sheep (“Nobody has blinded me”)
Aeolus’ wind (just as they see Ithica…)Circe turns them to pigs– Directions: Land of dead*Sirens– six headed monster– whirlpoolSacred cows. Massive storm kills them all.Calypso’s island.
Odysseus murders Penelope’s suitors Slide17
Hades: As witnessed by Odysseus
8
th
C. BCE. Grey and dreary world.Shadows/ shades his mother, Agamemnon, Achilles.Want to be remembered by livingAchilles “rather be a landless slave on earth then a King in the underworld”Did develop over time: 4th C. BCE Elysium and TartarusSlide18Slide19
Some References we will see in class.
Poe’s “The Raven,” Raven sits on Pallas Athena’s bust and goes to Hades’ Plutonian shore.
Hamlet
– Players act out Hecuba (Priam’s wife) and he wonders how the actor can express so much for someone he didn’t really know while he must be quiet.“Myth of Sisyphus”– absurdists use Greek myth as premise for philosophy
Ondaatje
references
Odysseus’ brush with sirens in “To a Sad Daughter”Slide20
Ancient Greek MythologyWorks Cited
“Greek Mythology” Greek Mythology. Colorado University.
N.d.
Web. 12 Dec. 2014. “Myth” Dictionary.com n.d. n.d. Web. “The History of the Trojan War.” Mortal Women of the Trojan War.
Stanford.edu
.
N.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2014.