Greek Mythology

THE CREATION
How the World and Mankind Were Created
 Chaos
Night (Nyx)

Erebus (Darkness) Hypnos (Sleep)

Thanatos (Death)
Gaea, known as Earth or
Mother Earth (the Greek
common noun for "land"
is ge or ga). She was an
early earth goddess and it
is written that Gaia was
born from Chaos, the
great void of emptiness
within the universe
URANUS, ALSO KNOWN
AS OURANOS, WAS THE
EMBODIMENT OF THE
SKY OR HEAVENS, AND
KNOWN AS THE GOD OF
THE SKY. HE WAS THE
FIRST SON OF GAEA (THE
EARTH) AND HE ALSO
BECAME HER HUSBAND.
HARP WAS THE OBJECT USED TO
CASTRATE THE GENITALS OF FATHER
HEAVEN.
 First Creatures
Titans

Hecatoncheires

Cyclops
Giants Erinyes (The Furies)

Tisiphone,Megaera,Alecto
CRONUS (SATURN),
THE SON
OF URANUS AND
 GAIA AND THE
YOUNGEST OF THE
TWELVE TITANS. HIS
WIFE WAS ALSO
ONE OF THE
TITANS
RHEA (OPS IN LATIN) IS THE
MOTHER OF THE GODS,
DAUGHTER
OF URANUS AND GAIA. SHE
IS MARRIED TO HER
BROTHER CRONUS AND IS
THE MOTHER
OF DEMETER, HADES, HERA, 
HESTIA, 
POSEIDON AND ZEUS.
HESTIA IS THE GREEK
GODDESS OF THE HEART
FIRE, HENCE PRESIDING
OVER DOMESTIC LIFE.
SHE IS THE ELDEST SISTER
OF ZEUS AND THE OLDEST
DAUGHTER
OF RHEA AND CRONUS.
DEMETER, THE GREEK EARTH
GODDESS PAR EXCELLENCE ,
WHO BRINGS FORTH THE
FRUITS OF THE EARTH,
PARTICULARLY THE VARIOUS
GRAINS. SHE TAUGHT
MANKIND THE ART OF SOWING
SO THEY COULD END THEIR
NOMADIC EXISTENCE. AS
SUCH, DEMETER WAS ALSO
THE GODDESS OF PLANNED
SOCIETY.
HERA, THE QUEEN OF THE
OLYMPIAN DEITIES. SHE IS A
DAUGHTER
OF CRONUS AND RHEA, AND
WIFE AND SISTER OF ZEUS.
HERA WAS MAINLY
WORSHIPPED AS A GODDESS
OF MARRIAGE AND BIRTH.
HADES IS THE LORD OF THE
DEAD AND RULER OF THE
NETHER WORLD, WHICH IS
REFERRED TO AS THE
DOMAIN OF HADES OR, BY
TRANSFERENCE, AS HADES
ALONE. HE IS THE SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA.
POSEIDON IS FAMOUS AS THE
GOD OF THE SEA. THE SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA,
POSEIDON IS ONE OF SIX
SIBLINGS WHO EVENTUALLY
"DIVIDED THE POWER OF THE
WORLD."
ZEUS, THE YOUNGEST SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA, HE
WAS THE SUPREME RULER OF
MOUNT OLYMPUS AND OF THE
PANTHEON OF GODS WHO
RESIDED THERE. BEING THE
SUPREME RULER HE UPHELD
LAW, JUSTICE AND MORALS,
AND THIS MADE HIM THE
SPIRITUAL LEADER OF BOTH
GODS AND MEN.
DELPHI
TITANOMACHY
• A war that almost wrecked the universe
• A terrible war between Cronus, helped by his
brother Titans, against Zeus with his five
brothers and sisters
TITANOMACHY
Titans Olympians

Cronus Zeus

Titans-Atlas Zeus Siblings

Hecatoncheires

Prometheus
ATLAS

He is the Titan who was greatly punished

after the war.
• Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a
creature more terrible than any that had gone before. His name
was TYPHON.

A flaming monster with a hundred

heads ,
Who rose up against all the gods
Death whistled from his fearful
jaws,
His eyes flashed glaring fire
GIANTS
OLYMPIANS
 HERCULES

He is the demigod who helped the

Olympians defeat the giants.