greek gods and monsters seen in the odyssey. assumptions these stories are from a long time ago...
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Greek Gods and Monsters
Seen in The Odyssey
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AssumptionsThese stories are from a long time ago
prior to scientific understanding. People needed to make sense of things.
Oral tradition of storytelling creates the contradictory nature.
These stories take some maturity.
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Complexities
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The Beginning
Oranos Father of the sky
An original king of gods
Married to Gaia
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Oranos and Gaia’s Children
Cronos and Rhea
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Married
Cronos
King and a
TitanRhea
Goddess of Earth
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Cronos
Cronos kills his father and dismembers him.
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Cronos and Rhea
Have six children
The first five: Hera, Demeter, Hestia,
Poseidon and Hades
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Cronos and Rhea’s children
Cronos swallows his children for fear of them dethroning him.
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Rhea is fed up.
She tricks him when she has Zeus.
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Zeus and Rhea ban together
Give Cronos a mustanrd potion to make him vomit. He vomits up the five children (and the boulder.)
Fight Cronos and win.
Zeus kills his father and the prophecy comes true.
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Zeus
Zeus becomes the new king.
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Zeus is fairer.
Zeus draws lots with his brothers to see
who rules what.
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Who wins?
ZeusHe takes the sky
God of the sky
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Poseidon wins next
He takes the sea
God of the sea
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Hades
He takes what is left, the underworld
God of the underworld
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Children of Cronos
Zeus HeraDemeter Hestia Poseidon
Hades
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Demeter
Goddess of the harvest and the moon
Has a daughter with Zeus named Persephone
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Children of Cronos
Zeus HeraDemeter Hestia Poseidon
Hades
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Poseidon
Chooses Amphitrite, a sea nymph, to marry.
She doesn’t want to marry him and goes to hide.
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Amphitrite marries
Poseidon sends a dolphin to retrieve Amphitrite.
The dolphin is successful.
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Marriage
PoseidonAmphitrite
Goddess of the sea
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Poseidon’s Children
Poseidon
Polyphemus
Charybdis
Aeolus
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Polyphemus
A Cyclops
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Polyphemus
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Charybdis
Sea Monster
Ticked off Zeus and he turned her into a monster.
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Charybdis
A big blob with a mouth.
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Aeolus
god of the wind
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Cronus and Rhea’s Children
Zeus Hera DemeterHestia Poseidon
Hades
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Hades
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Hades falls in love
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Hades spies Persephone
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Hades kidnaps Persephone
The problem:
Persephone is Demeter’s daughter
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Remember who Demeter is?
Zeus HeraDemeter
HestiaPoseidon Hades
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So what does Demeter do?
• She combs the Earth looking for her daughter, unaware her brother kidnapped her.
• While she is looking, everything dies off.
• Finally she finds Persephone, but Hades refuses to give her back.
• She implores Zeus to help, but he won’t.
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So what does Demeter do?
• She gets her revenge by making all things die on Earth.
• What happens to people if all things die?
• The people implore Zeus to intervene.
• Persephone has eaten some pomegranate seeds. Anyone who eats in the underworld must stay.
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What’s the deal?
Zeus makes a deal with Hades: for the number of seeds she eats, that is the number of months she must reside with Hades.
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Persephone returns
When Persephone is on Earth with her mother all things grow. When she is with her husband, all things die. What does that explain?
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Marriage
HadesPersephone
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Cronos and Rhea’s Children
Zeus HeraDemeter
Hestia Poseidon Hades
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Hestia
Goddess of the hearth
Never married or had children
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Cronos and Rhea’s Children
Zeus HeraDemeter
Hestia Poseidon Hades
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Hera
Goddess of women and marriage.
Known to be vengeful
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Marriage!
ZeusHera
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Zeus and Hera’s Kids
Hera
Eris Ares Hepahestus
Zeus
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Eris
•goddess of discord and troublemaking
•Started the events of the Trojan War
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Ares
god of war and manly courage
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Hephaestus
• Hephaestus was not wanted by Zeus.
• Somehow he got thrown down a mountain.
• He became disfigured and disabled.
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Hepahestus
Smithgod and god of forging weapons
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Aphrodite
Born of the blood of Oranos and the foam of the sea
goddess of love and beauty
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What’s the problem?
Aphrodite is so beautiful and was having many affairs.
Women hate her.
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At the same time…
•Hera is trapped in a box by her son Hephaestus.
•Zeus implores Hephaestus to let his mother free.
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Zeus makes a deal.
For letting Hera out, Hephaestus gets a prize: Aphrodite.
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What’s the problem with that?
oAphrodite is repulsed by Hephaestus and wants her old life back.
oSo, she continues to have affairs, most notably Ares.
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Remember who Ares is?
Hera
Eris Ares Hepahestus
Zeus
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Hephaestus’s revenge
Hephaestus makes a net and catches Aphrodite and Ares together and publically ridicules them.
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Eros
god of love
AresAphrodite
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Zeus had a wandering eye…
Zeus is known for having many affairs and numerous children.
Artemis
Apollo
Athena
Hermes
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The Twins
Artemis
goddess of the chase or hunt
Apollo
god of sun, music, poetry and archery
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Athena (Athene)
goddess of wisdom and battle (strategic warfare)
born of Zeus’s head
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Hermes
Messenger god
Delivers messages between gods and mortals
Cunning, known for sometimes making trouble