CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY AND OLYMPIANS
GREEK MYTHOLOGY (Greek Name – Roman Name)
• Zeus - Jupiter, Hera - Juno, Poseidon-Neptune, Hades -
Pluto, Hestia - Vesta, Athena - Minerva, Artemis - Diana,
Apollo - Apollo, Aphrodite - Venus, Hephaestus - Vulcan,
Ares - Mars, Hermes - Mercury
BRAND NAMES
• Ajax - Greek warrior (only as a popular kitchen and
bathroom cleanser)
• amazon.com -Amazon warriors are objects of fear
(online shopping center and bookseller)
• Eos - Greek goddess of the dawn, Roman - Aurora (line
of cameras developed by Canon)
• Hermes - messenger of the Greek gods (the maker of
expensive scarves and handbags) - named after Thierry
Hermes)
• Janus - two-faced god is the Roman god of vigilance
and wisdom (high-profile investment company)
• Mars is the Roman god of war. - Ares in Greek (candy
bar company, named from Franklin Mars)
• Olympus - a great Greek mountain (camera maker)
• Oracle was a mortal seer or psychic (manufacturer of
database software) - To wit, there is a language named
Delph.
• Trojan - live in the great city of Troy
• Beauty Products – Aphrodite
• Pandora Box – Pandora (Hope)
• Trident – Poseidon
• Medusa Cement – Medusa
• Starbucks – Siren
QUIZ SA PPT
• Ovid - compendium of mythology.
• False - Greek mythologists are rhetorical and are
notably sentimental.
• Iliad - Written by Homer
• Pindar - greatest lyric poet of Greece.
• True - Aeschylus is the oldest of the three tragic
poets of Greece.
• Aristophanes - great writer of comedy.
• True - The miracle of Greek mythology is a
humanized world.
• Herodotus - first historian of Europe
• Apuleius -
told of Cupid & Psyche
• Apollodorus - most voluminous ancient Greek writer
• Roman Writers - Virgil
, Catullus
, Horace
• Titans - elder gods
• Zeus - Lord of the Sky, the Rain-god, and the Cloud-
gatherer
• Artemis - Apollo’s twin sister and the Lady of Wild
Things.
• Hesiod - poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter
(Works and Days)
• Theogony - a work that tells the creation of the
universe and the generations of the gods
• Iliad - first written record of Greece
• The Greek Miracle - This phrase tries to express the
new birth of the world with the awakening of Greece.
• St. Paul - He said that the invisible must be
understood by the visible.
• Human Beings - This is the center of the all the Greek
art and thought.
• Circe and Medea - They are the only witches in Greek
mythology.
• Dark Spots - Example of these is the weaknesses of
the Gods and Goddesses.
• Myths - These are early science, not religion.
• Ghosts - They never appear on earth in any Greek
story
• Gorgons, Hydras, Chimaeras - They are the three
mythological monsters.
• Centaurs - Half man, half horse
• Satyrs - Half man, half goat.
• Mankind - With the coming forward of Greece, this • Eros - beautiful serious youth who gives good gifts to
became the center of the universe. men
• Classical - This kind of mythology doesn’t give dark
pictures.
• Primitive - This kind of mythology gives dark pictures
of the world.
• Greeks - The tales of mythology throw an abundance
of light upon what early ___ were like.
• Hera - Stock character of comedy and a typical jealous
wife.
• Priest - This person/character is rarely seen and is
never of importance in Greek mythology.
• Early Greek Mythologists - They transformed a world
full of fear into a world full of beauty.
THE OLYMPIANS
• Zeus - He is represented as falling in love with one
woman after
another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide
his infidelity from his wife.
• Hera - protector of marriage, and
married women. - was a very jealous goddess.
• Hades - unpitying, inexorable, but just;
a terrible, not an evil god.
• Pallas Athena - fierce and ruthless battle goddess, but
elsewhere she is warlike. - embodiment of
wisdom, reason, purity.
• Phoebus Apollo - delights
Olympus as he plays on his golden lyre.
• Artemis - protectress of dewy youth.
• Aphrodite - unfaithfulness to her
husband Hephaestus with her many lovers (her
favorite was Ares)
• Hermes - happiest of all the gods, liked by everyone
for his joyous attitude
• Hephaestus - kindly, peaceloving god, popular on
earth as in heaven.
• Hestia - virgin or maiden goddesses and
the Goddess of Hearth, the symbol of the home.