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1 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY To the Glory that Was Greece And the Grandeur that Was Rome

2 WHAT ARE MYTHS? What is MYTH? FICTION FROM FACT 1. Cosmological Phenomenon (e.g. lightning, floods, earthquakes, etc.) 2. Explanation of a Fact or Custom 3. Traditions of Religion and Ritual 4. Metaphorical/psychological – catharsis (Oedipus complex) 5. Archetypes of father, mother, love, hate, etc.

3 WHY DO THEY ENDURE? 1. Source of Customs and Morals 2. Goldmine of Inspirations for the Arts (e.g., literature, painting, music, etc.) 3.Entertainment: Gods are an extension of both positive and negative human qualities.

4 MYTHS TODAY? Advertisements! Company names and images! Bring in examples for extra credit.

5 AN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Greece 750 BCE “Homer” is composing…. 508 Democracy begins in Athens… 490-80 Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon and Salamis 450 Athens controls an empire, Pericles is in power… 430s The War between Athens and Sparta – “The Peloponnesian War”… 330s Philip of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great conquer Greece and the “world”... 146 BCE Rome conquers Greece... Rome 753 BCE “Romulus and Remus”/The Monarchy 509 Expulsion of the Kings 508 The Republic - Senatus Populusque Romanus 264-241 1 st Punic War (Rome takes Sicily from Carthage) 218-201 2 nd Punic War (Hannibal defeated/Spain becomes Rome’s) 149-146 3 rd Punic War (Carthage destroyed) 44 Julius Caesar killed

6 OUR PRIMARY SOURCES GREEK Hesiod, Works and Days and Theogony Homer The Illiad and The Odyssey Playwrights of Tragedy: Aeschylus ( Orestia ), Euripides ( Medea/Electra ), Sophocles ( Antigone / Oedipus Tyrranus ) Historians: Thucydides and Herodotus LATIN Ovid Metamorphoses Vergil The Aeneid Livy Ab Urbe Conditas

7 IN THE BEGINNING… Primordial Gods and the Stages of Creation CHAOS (void) produces the following 1. NUX (darkness) 2. EROS (love, the uniting deity) 3. TARTARUS (death, underworld) 4. EREBOS (gloom) 5. GAEA (the great mother; mother earth) 6.HEMERA (light, day) 7. AETHER (the upper atmosphere)

8 REMEMBER THE TITANS

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