mythos (latin)- story

Stories that: Involve religion of some sort explain occurrences in nature explain origins of earth and peopleExplain customs or traditions

Uranus and Gaia father sky and mother Earth

First 12 children…the Titans 100 armed beings (Hecatoncheires and one-eyed giants (Cyclopes)

Young Cronus

The sickle and the ambush the curse

Cronus and Rhea

Hades PoseidonHestia Demeter Hera

Zeus

Rhea heads to Crete

Cronus hungry….grrrrrrr

Stories of Zeus’ upbringing Raised by a goat with dancers Raised by a nymph and a tree Raised by Grandma Gaia

Zeus takes on his old man

ZeusKing of the

GodsHeaven &

Earth

PoseidonSea Hades (w/

Cerberus)Underworld

• Daughter of Cronus & Rhea (Oldest & youngest)

• Goddess of hearth & ordering of the Family

• Tend to the fire

• Vow on Zeus

• Daughter of Cronus & Rhea

• Goddess of grain and agriculture

• Mother of Persephone

Goddess of Spring, fertility, and the Underworld

Daughter of Zeus & Demeter

No time for courting

Zeus relents

Pomegranate seeds

The seasons

God of war, blood lust, and violence

Son of Zeus and Hera

Mommy and Daddy issues

“Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him: 'Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympus. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles.

And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinous long since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky."

• God of wine and ecstasy

• Son of Zeus and Semele (mortal)

• Hera interjects

• Twice-born

• His brother’s keeper

• He’s got a thing for Dolphins

son of Zeus and Hera

God of technology, craftsmen, and fire

smith’s hammer, tongs, and an anvil

Fall from Olympus

Hermes’ helmet and sandals, Aphrodite’s girdle, and thrones

Aphrodite & Ares

• Daughter of Zeus and Metis (Titan)

• Another weird birth story

• Goddess of strategic warfare, wisdom, and heroic endeavor

• Helper of heroes

• the Aegis

• The Parthenon

• Family competition

Son of Zeus and Alcmene (mortal)

Kind of twin Iphicles

Hera’s hatred

Braining Linus

Poor Megara

12 deeds

(glorious gift of Hera)

12 deeds Nemean Lion Lernean 9 headed Hydra

help from his nephew The stables The Golden Apples

Helps out Prometheus Poor Atlas

Cerberus

3rd wife Deianeira

Nessus the centaur

Herc and the bloody arrows

Nessus has a warning

The death of Heracles