By Courtney Malmgren

*Europe mythology

How does Greek mythology affect people’s lives now? *Mythology is everywhere daily

you run across instances of words like city names Athens, Troy, Sparta, Echo, Olympia and they are companies like Apollo Theater is a famous music hall in New York City and literature references in books, songs, movies like Perce Jackson, art statues like Hercules Statue in Port Merion and the Atlas Statue in Rockefeller Center. ( The one at the top of the page is Atlas statue and the one bellow is Hercules)

Summarize 2 storiesWhat is Europe’s main myths?*Europe is a princess that was adduced by Zeus and tare

was tree sons Minous, Rhadamanthys, and, Sarpedon who all become judges of the underworld Zeus was the father of all but he ask Asterion to marry him and she did. Europe became immortal after her name became a continent

*Another legend says she had a dream about two women as know as to continents and one of them are named Asia and the other Europe belongs to Asia because she was born there.

Zeus’s plan*Zeus planes was to turn

himself into a white bull and swim to the shore of Asia where she lived. The bull was so pretty and gentle that all women at the shore fell for him. But he bent in front of Europe offering her his back to ride. She mounted on his back and the bull took her from Phoenicia, across the sea, to Crete, to Dikteon Andron, the cave where he was born. That is where he showed his real identity to Europe

Myths

Why was mythology created? *Most ancient societies needed a

creation myth to explain the creation of the world and the Greek myths fulfilled this role for the ancient Greeks. They also helped to explain natural phenomena such as the passage of the sun across the sky, storms, thunderbolts, thunder and lightning, plagues, failed crop harvests and so on before modern science provided the true explanations.

*Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

*The oldest known Greek literary sources, the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on events surrounding the Trojan War two poems and the author is Homer's

SITES The myth of Europehttp://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-europe/

Greek mythologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Mythology