GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Introduction:
PART I
 There are no ghost in Greek Mythology
The Gods
unlike the Chinese, Japanese, and Philippine
 The universe created the gods
Mythology.
Witches Gorgons

Medea Medusa
• Heaven and Earth - first parents
Stheno
Circe/Cerce • Titans - the children. Often called elder gods
Euryale
TITANS

 Cronus - King of the Titans

 Harpies - winged creatures with foul odor.
 Rhea - wife of Cronus
Known as hounds of Zeus.
 Prometheus - savior of mankind. "Before
GREEK AND ROMAN WRITERS OF MYTHOLOGY thoughts"
 Epimetheus - "After thoughts"
 Ovid - Chief among them. Told almost every  Atlas - bore the world
story  Mnemosyne - goddess of memory. Her name
 Hesiod - author of Words and Days, comes from the Greek word mneme means
Theogony, and Shield of Heracles. "remembrance" Or "memory"
 Pindar - greatest lyric poet of Ancient Greece
 Homer - author of Iliad and Odyssey
 Aristophanes - "Father of Comedy"
 Cronus was dethroned by his son Zeus.
 Herodotus - "Father of History"
 Apuleius - author of Cupid and Psyche Twelve (12) GREAT OLYMPIANS
 Virgil - author of Aeiud
 Zeus (Jupiter) - the chief. God of sky
 Pausanias - author of 1st guide book ever
 Poseidon (Neptune) - God of Sea
written
 Hades (Pluto) - God of the Underworld
3 Tragic Poets  Hestia - Goddess of heart
 Hera - Goddess of Marriage, wife of Zeus
1. Aeschylus - oldest among them
 Ares (Mars) - God of War
2. Sophocles
 Athena - Goddess of Wisdom
3. Euripides - the youngest
 Apollo - God of Music, light/truth, and divine
archer
 Aphrodite - Goddess of Love
 Elysian Fields - a paradise-like meadow in  Artemis - Goddess of Hunt
the underworld where the souls of heroes  Hephaestus (Vulcan) - God of Fire/Forge.
and most virtuous people resided.
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Known as the ugliest god  Erato - love poetry, and Muse of Lyric
 Euterpe - Muse of Music
 Melpomene - Muse of Tragedy
There are 3 Maiden Goddesses  Polyhymnia - Muse of Sacred Poetry
 Thalia - Muse of Comedy
Hestia, Artemis, and Athena  Urania - Muse of Astronomy and Astrology
 Calliope - Muse of Epic Poetry
 Daphne - was a nymph, became a tree spirit,
 Terpsichore - Muse of Dance
and the daughter of Peneus, the River God.
 Demeter - goddess of harvest The Three (3) Graces

The Lesser Gods of Olympus — A triple Incarnation of Grace and Beauty

 Eros(Cupid) - "fairest of the deathless gods". 1. Aglaia - Goddess of Cheer

Often represented as blindfolded (for love is 2. Thalia - Splendor
blind). 3. Euphrosyne - Mirth
 He be - goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus
and Hera, cupbearer of the gods, and wife of
Hercules
Gods of Waters
 Iris - goddess of Rainbow, and messanger of
the goddess "Hera"  Poseidon - Lord and ruler of the Sea.
 Ocean (Titan) - Lord of the River Ocean
 Pontos (deep sea) - son of Mother Earth and
Two August forms sitting beside Zeus the father of Nereus, sea-god for more
important than he, himself, was.
1. Themis (right or divine justice  Nereus - Old man of the Sea. Trustworthy
2. Dike or human justice God and gentle.
 Triton - trumpeter of the Sea.
 Naids - water nymphs dwelling in Brooks.
Two personified emotions esteemed  Proteus - had the power to foretell the future
and change his shape at will.
1. Nemesis (Righteous anger)
2. Aidos (Reverence and shame that holds men
back from wrong doing)
UNDERWORLD

TWO(2) REGIONS
The Muse's
 EREBUS - Where the deads pass as soon as
 Clio - goddess of memory, and Muse of they dies.
History
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Gorgons
 TARTARUS - The prison of the sons of the  Pan - Shepherd's God
Medusa
earth.  Aeolus - King of Winds
Stheno  Silenus - Perpetual Drunkenness
 Castor and Pollux - Special Protectors of
Euryale
 CHARON – Ferryman who transported the Sailors.
souls of the dead across the river Styx.  Sileni - Creatures part man and part horse.
 Acheron - River of Woe and Misery. Often seen on Greek vases.
 Cocytus - River of Cries and Lamentations.

 Cerberus - 3 headed-tail dog. His role is to

guard the gates of Hades.

THREE (3) JUDGES OF THE UNDERWORLD

 THE THREE(3) FATES
 MINOS -
 Clotho - The Spinner, who spun the thread of
 RHADAMATHUS
life
 AEACUS -
 Lacheris - Disposer of Lots, who assigned to
THREE (3) RIVERS each man his destiny
 Atropos - who could not be turned, carried
 STYX - River of Unbreakable Oath "the abhorrer shears" And cut the thread at
 LETHE - River of Forgetfulness death.
 PHLEGETHON - River of Fire

THE ERINYES (FURIES) - pursue the sinners/punish

the evildoers in the underworld  THE SIRENS - had enchanting voices and their
singing lired the sailors to their death
 TISIPHONE (AVENGING)  The Graie - gray sisters and the Phorcides
 MAGANDA (GRUDGING) (daughters of Phorcys's)
 ALECTO (UNCEASING)

THE TWO (2) GREAT GODS OF EARTH

 SLEEP AND DEATH ( FALSE DREAM VS. TRUE
DREAM)  Demeter(Ceres)
 Story of Ceyx and Alcyone  Dionysus (Bacchus)

THE LESSER GODS OF EARTH

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