Sarmiento, Baby Jean M. Mrs. Marites E.

Vergara
BSED-III ENGLISH Assignment
MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE

Narrative for Greek Mythology

Greek mythology was employed to explain the environment in which humans lived, natural
events they saw, and the passage of time via the days, months, and seasons. Greek myths were also
inextricably linked to religion, explaining the origins and lives of the gods, as well as where
humanity had originated from and where it was going after death.

Greek myths not only gave the gods of Greek religion faces and personalities, but they also
provided people with useful practical counsel on how to live a happy life. Another function of
myths was to retell historical events so that people might keep in touch with their ancestors, the
battles they fought in, and the locations they visited.
The Gods and Goddesses
Chaos: the primal feature of the universe.
Pontus: primordial deities that ruled on the earth before the arrival of the Olympians.
Gaea: goddess of the earth.
Ouranus: god of the sky.
Tartarus: the primordial god (protogenos) of the stormy pit of Tartaros that lies beneath the
foundations of the earth.
Cronus: was the Titan God of the Harvest, agriculture, vegetation, fertility, the ages and the
destructive forces of time, and King of the Titans. Also known as Father Time.
Rhea: is a goddess in Greek mythology, the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the
sky god Uranus, Gaia's son. She is the older sister of Cronus, who was also her consort.
Zeus : the king of all the gods (and father to many) and god of weather, law and fate
Hera : the queen of the gods and goddess of women and marriage
Aphrodite: goddess of beauty and love
Apollo: god of prophesy, music and poetry and knowledge
Ares : god of war
Artemis : goddess of hunting, animals and childbirth
Athena : goddess of wisdom and defense
Demeter : goddess of agriculture and grain
Dionysus : god of wine, pleasure and festivity
Hermes : god of travel, hospitality and trade and Zeus’s personal messenger
Poseidon : god of the sea

Other gods and goddesses sometimes included in the roster of Olympians are:

Hades : god of the underworld

Hestia : goddess of home and family
Eros : god of sex and minion to Aphrodite
 CHAOS
nothingness

PONTUS GAEA OURANUS TARTARUS

CHRONUS RHEA

DEMETER ZEUS HERA POSEIDON HADES HESTIA

PERSEPHONE ARES EILEITHYIA HERA

ATHENA APHRODITE APOLLO ARTEMIS HERMES DIONYSOS

GREEK MYTHOLOGY
GODS AND GODDESSES
FAMILY TREE