1. GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH

2. Background – Greek Civilization –Minoan (Crete) 2200-1450 BC –Mycenean 1450-1100 BC (“good old days”) –Dark Ages (no record) 1100-700 BC –Homer, Hesiod 800-700 (beg. of writing) –Greek Drama 500-400 (height of Gr. Civ.)

3. Background -Roman Civilization Roman Civilization - 200 BC-300 AD Christianity - 300 AD

4. Greek Cosmogony/Cosmology

5. Greek Mythology Begins Orally Heavily borrowed from earlier nearby cultures— esp. Sumerian and Egyptian Separate City-States, Islands, geography leads to fragmentary, overlapping stories First written in Homer, Hesiod 800-700BC Most Important Characteristic: HUMANISM –“The Greek Miracle” –“Anthropomorphic”

6. Greek Creation Stories Hesiod, “Theogony” Greek Deity Family Tree (handout)

7. Botticelli – “Birth of Venus”

8. The Original Dysfunctional Family – Goya - “Saturn Devouring His Son”

9. Zeus – The Ultimate Pick-up Artist? Da Vinci, “Leda and the Swan”

10. “Rape of Europa” - Titian

11. Greek Gods and Their Human Characteristics What are the primary attributes/personality traits of the major gods? How many of these could be seen as human failures/fallible behavior? Discuss: compare Greek creation story and Greek Gods with their fallible, human characteristics to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Monotheism and notion of God’s perfection –“How does one worship a fallible god?” –“What different attitudes of worship and religious belief might result from such different Deities?”

12. Rubens - “The Judgment of Paris”

13. Breughels – “The Fall of Icarus”