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Ancient
Greek Mythology
Some rights reserved
by
dynamosquitoSlide2
Uranus“Father Sky”
Gaia“Mother Earth”In the Beginning...Slide3
The Titans
atlas
Prometheus
Cronus
Descendants of Gaia and UranusSlide4
O U C H ! ! !
The Mutilation of Uranus: fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi, c. 1560Cronus overthrows Uranus
Cronus Pictured With SickleSlide5
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
, 1482-1486Slide6
Understandably PARANOID
CronusPeter Paul
Reubens
,
Cronus Devours PoseidonSlide7Slide8
Zeus, PoseidonHades
defeat Cronus and the Titans
Titanomachy
War of the TitansSlide9
The OlympiansSlide10
The Olympians
Zeus (Jupiter)
Poseidon (Neptune)
Apollo
Hermes (Mercury)
Ares (Mars)
Hephaestus (Vulcan)
Hera (Juno)
Athena (Minerva)
Aphrodite (Venus)
Artemis (Diana)
Demeter (Ceres)
Hestia (
Vesta
)
Hades (Pluto) Slide11
King of the Gods
Known for his many romantic escapades
Zeus
Lord of Sky and ThunderSlide12
HIGH MAINTENANCE
Causes earthquakes, storms, and shipwrecks when ignored
Poseidon
Lord of the Sea
TRIDENTSlide13
Hades with his hell hound, Cerberus, guardian of the gates of the Underworld
HadesLord of the UnderworldSlide14
Apollo
god of the sun, prophecy
,
music
, poetry,
etc.Slide15
Greeks would visit Apollo’s Oracle seeking prophecies about the future.
The Oracle
At Delphi
Photo Credit:
LuarvickSlide16
Women and MarriageSister AND Wife of Zeus
HeraQueen of the GodsSlide17
Ambrogio Figino, Io and ZeusSlide18
The Parthenon (Athens)
Athena
Patroness of Athens
W
Wisdom & WarfareSlide19
The Parthenon
Parthenos = VirginPhoto Credit: Steve
SwayneSlide20
The Nashville Parthenon
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Serge
MelkiSlide21Slide22
Aphrodite
love, beauty, pleasure and procreation
Carson
picked this!Slide23
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1482-1486Slide24
Prometheus by Theodoor Rombouts (1597–1637)Slide25
Prometheus
Patron of Mankind
Prometheus watches Athena
endow his creation with reason
(
painting by Christian Griepenkerl, 1877)Slide26
Prometheus
Patron of MankindPrometheus tricked Zeus twice on behalf of humanity.
Prometheus Tricks Zeus
The Theft of FireSlide27
The Theft of Fire, Christian GriepenkerlSlide28
Punishment
Atlas and Prometheus facing their respective punishments from ZeusSlide29
Prometheus Being Rescued by Hercules, by
Christian Griepenkerl RESCUEDSlide30
Prometheus,
Epimetheus
AND Pandora
NEVER
accept
a gift
from Zeus
-- Prometheus to EpimetheusSlide31
The First Womancreated by Zeus as a revenge against Prometheus and men
Pandora
“All Gifts”
HOPE
Sometimes, it’s all we have left!Slide32
“From her is the race of women and female kind:of her is the deadly race and tribe of women wholive amongst mortal men to their great trouble,
no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.” -- Hesiod (Greek Writer)
John William Waterhouse,
Pandora
(1896)
Women
The Ancient Greek ViewSlide33