Good Morning!

Opening Prayer:
Lord Jesus, you are with us now. Help us recognize our
presence in each other. May friendship flourish within us.
Fill us with a deep sense of peace. Inspire us to listen with
attention and patience to each other, to share with courage
and generosity, and to welcome the ideas of all.

May this meeting of ours strengthen our friendship, build

our community and increase our confidence in ourselves
and our school.

All this, we ask through our Savior Jesus Christ.

St. Joseph, pray for us. Amen.
“The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur
that was Rome”
Activity: Think, Talk, Write (TTW)
“The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur
that was Rome”
Today’s Discussion:

1 Greece

2 Greek Mythology

3 Activity
1
Greece
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Greece

 Hellenic Republic; country in the Mediterranean.

 Capital is Athens; main language is Greek
 There are many Holidays and Festivals in Greece:
• Gynaikratia – all traditional roles are reversed
• Carnival Season – fancy costumes and feast
• Easter – candlelit processions through the street
• Hellenic Festival – traditional music and drama
performances in ancient theaters.
 Ancient Greek beliefs and characteristics
o Death is inevitable and final, so the goal was to become a
legend through great deeds.
o The Greeks were tough, restless, ambitious, hard-living, and
imaginative.
o Honor was extremely important, and the Greeks were very
vengeful if wronged.
o The gods mirrored human feelings and physical form.
o Their flaws were pride, cruelty, stubbornness, impulsiveness,
lust for power, and a desire to be like the gods.
Greek Mythology
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Greek Mythology
Where did Greek Mythology begin?

GREECE
 What are Myths?
• Traditional stories of gods, kings, and heroes
• Show the relations between gods and people
• Mythology was a form of early science to Greeks because it
helped explain the unexplainable.
• Depicts the creation and destruction of the world and natural
phenomenon like death.
Why does mythology exist?
What is its purpose?
 Myths seek to explain all those unexplainable
or unknowable aspects of life.
o Where do we go after we die?
o How was the world created?
o Why can we see our reflection in water?
o Why are there four separate seasons?
o Why do we fall in love?
o How is lightning created?
o Why do our voices sometime echo?
o How was fire created, and why do we have it?
 The Creation
Myth
o First there was Chaos
o Chaos gave birth to Gaea (the earth)
and Night, which gave birth to day.
o Gaea and Uranus (the sky) gave birth to
Cronus and the other Titans,
the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants) and the
Hecatonchieres (50 heads and 100
arms apiece.)
 From Chaos (darkness) came Gaea
 Gaea gave birth to Uranus (the sky)
 When rain fell on Gaea, plants, animals and rivers
were created.
 Gaea became Mother Earth, mother of all living
things and mother of the first gods.
 With Uranus, Gaea gave birth to 12 Titans (including
Cronus and Rhea) all powerful giants – 6 boys and 6
girls.
 Before the Titans were born, Gaea gave birth to three
huge one-eyed giants called Cyclopes and three
Hecatoncheires (50 heads and 100 arms)
 Gaea + Uranus =
The Titans 12 Titans, 3 Cyclopes
and 3 Hecatoncheires
• Often called the “Elder Gods”
• They ruled the Earth before the Olympians
over-threw them.
• The ruler of the Titans was Cronus (youngest of
all titans)

The Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires

• Uranus hated these ugly children and

threw them away into the Underworld
• This greatly angered Gaea and she convinced
Cronus, her son and also one of the Titans, to
overthrow Uranus, his father.
 Cronus + Rhea =
• Cronus succeeded in overthrowing Uranus Olympian Gods
and became the new Lord of the Universe
• Cronus and his sister wife, Rhea, were the parents of
the Olympians.
• But Cronus worried that one of his sons would over-
throw him just as he had overthrown his own father…
so he swallowed each child as it was born
• This made Cronus’ wife, Rhea, very angry.
• Finally, she hid the youngest child, Zeus, and
tricked Cronus with a rock wrapped in a blanket.
• Zeus overthrew Cronus by causing him to throw up
his brothers and sisters (who had been living in the
stomach of Cronus) These siblings were now fully
grown.
(Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus)
 The
Olympians
 A group of 12 gods who ruled after the
overthrow of the Titans
 All the Olympians are related in some
way
 The Olympian Gods: Zeus, Poseidon,
Hades, Hestia, Hera, Ares, Athena,
Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, and
Hephaestus
 Other Characters in Mythology
• The muses
– Nine goddesses in charge
of different sciences and
arts including music, poetry,
history, astronomy, dance,
etc.
– Daughters of Zeus
– They were meant to inspire
The fates
– daughters of Zeus
– Three blind sisters who determined
people’s lifespan
• One spun the thread of life
(Clotho)
• One measured the thread
(Atropos)
• One cut the thread with scissors
of death (Lachesis)
Mythology in Nature and Science
Many of our planets (and many moons) are named after Roman gods
Mercury- messenger god
Mars- god of war
Venus- goddess of love
Jupiter- king of the gods
Saturn- god of agriculture
Neptune- god of the seas
Uranus- ancient Greek deity of the heavens
Pluto- god of the underworld
 Using the lingo… today

Cupid: Nike:
Son of the goddess The Greek goddess
of Love. This of victory
winged god can be
seen to this day,
especially during
Valentine’s day. Cyclops:
One shot from his Named after a mythologi-
bow is supposed cal being with only one
to make the victim eye.
Activity:

1. Study the picture on page 3 of your ECAS 10 book. Does it

give you an idea about Greece? What other things come to
your mind when you see that picture? Are these things related
to Greece in any way possible?

2. Analyze the previous PowerPoint slides. Does the images

presented contributes to your understanding of the text written
in each slides? How do these images help you to understand
the selection on your book? Discuss your answer.
Thank you!
Any questions/clarifications?