Gallery Walk of Greek Gods & Gallery Walk of Greek Gods & GoddessesGoddesses

EQ: What were the religious EQ: What were the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks?beliefs of the ancient Greeks?

What is a myth?What is a myth?

• A myth is a kind of a story.A myth is a kind of a story.• Characteristics include one or more:Characteristics include one or more:-About gods or supernatural beings with -About gods or supernatural beings with

greater powers and abilities than humansgreater powers and abilities than humans-explain origins and how world came to be-explain origins and how world came to be-take place a long, long time ago and passed -take place a long, long time ago and passed

down through time by oral story tellingdown through time by oral story telling-thought to be true when told by original -thought to be true when told by original

storytellersstorytellers

What is the purpose of What is the purpose of myths?myths?

• They can explain how things came to They can explain how things came to be-origin of universe or the creation be-origin of universe or the creation of humans.of humans.

• They teach people the values and They teach people the values and beliefs that are important in their beliefs that are important in their society.society.

• They contain deep, religious They contain deep, religious significance to the people who tell significance to the people who tell them and believe them.them and believe them.

Do myths really matter?Do myths really matter?

• Yes!! Reference to Greek mythology is all around Yes!! Reference to Greek mythology is all around us in our worldus in our world

• Examples: Examples: -Ever heard of Nike athletic gear? Nike was a -Ever heard of Nike athletic gear? Nike was a

goddess of personification and victory.goddess of personification and victory.-What would Valentine’s Day be without Cupid? -What would Valentine’s Day be without Cupid?

Cupid, or Eros, is the God of love as the Greeks Cupid, or Eros, is the God of love as the Greeks called him.called him.

Does Apollo 13 ring a bell? The first crewed US Does Apollo 13 ring a bell? The first crewed US space missions were named for Apollo, the god of space missions were named for Apollo, the god of archery and prophecy.archery and prophecy.

Gallery WalkGallery Walk

• You will be with a table partner today to You will be with a table partner today to learn about the Greek Gods/Goddesses.learn about the Greek Gods/Goddesses.

• Fill in your graphic organizers as you travel Fill in your graphic organizers as you travel from picture to picture in the gallery.from picture to picture in the gallery.

• Voices should be a level 1- Your in a Voices should be a level 1- Your in a museum, folks!museum, folks!

• No more than 4 people at a picture!No more than 4 people at a picture!• You will have 20 minutes to complete this You will have 20 minutes to complete this

walk!walk!

Instagram Instagram Greek God or Goddess PageGreek God or Goddess PageCreate an Instagram post from your Create an Instagram post from your

favorite God or Goddess:favorite God or Goddess:RequirementsRequirements::Photo (on blank side of index card)- Photo (on blank side of index card)-

this should be an action shot or a this should be an action shot or a selfieselfie

Status Update (completed on the Status Update (completed on the sentence strip)-sentence strip)-Creative sentence of Creative sentence of how he/she is feeling, what he or she how he/she is feeling, what he or she would be doing right now, and would be doing right now, and include a hashtag. include a hashtag.

Zeus – Leader of the Olympian Gods

• He ruled the Olympians.• He was the god of thesky, lightning andthunder carrying athunderbolt as hissymbol.• He married Hera, hissister, which was a familyhabit.• He fathered manychildren with variousgoddesses and mortals.

Hera – Wife of Zeus• She was the protector ofmarriage and the home.• She was associated withthe peacock, because ofher great beauty.• She and Zeus werealways quarreling.• She was called the queenof intriguers, a vindictiveand jealous wife, whofrequently outwitted herhusband, Zeus.

Poseidon – God off the Sea• He built an underwaterpalace with a great pearland coral throne.• Although he chose Thetis,a beautiful water nymph,as his queen, he, like hisbrother Zeus, was a greatwanderer fatheringhundreds of children.• He was a difficult god,changeful andquarrelsome, but createdmany curious forms forhis sea creatures.• He invented the horse forhis sister Demeter, whomhe loved.

Hades – God of the Underworld

• He was the jealousbrother to Zeus andPoseidon.• He made Persephone hiswife after stealing herfrom her mother,Demeter, who was hissister.• Because he was a violentgod, who was also verypossessive of every newsoul, he rarely left hisunderworld domain.

Demeter-Goddess of Cornand the Harvest

• She was the goddess ofgrowing things.• She was the mother ofPersephone, whose fatherwas Zeus.• Her daughter waskidnapped by Hades andtaken to the Underworldfor six months of the yearcausing the change ofseasons.

• She was the sister ofZeus and the daughter ofCronos and Rhea.• She represented personaland communal securityand happiness.• She was thought of asthe kindest and mildest ofthe goddesses.• She was of littlemythological importance,appearing in only a fewstories.

Athena-Goddess of Wisdom,Justice, War, Civilization and Peace

• She was born full grownout of the head of Zeus.• She taught man to usetools and taught his wifeto spin and weave.• She was the best-lovedgoddess on Olympus.• She hated Ares, god ofwar, often besting him inbattle.• The Greek city of Athensis named after her.• She was said to havecreated the spider.

Apollo-The Sun God; God of Music,

Poetry, Wisdom, Light and Truth

• He was the twin brotherof Artemis and the mosthandsome of the gods.• He was also the god ofthe healing arts and ofmedicine.• He drove his chariotacross the sky to pull thesun each day.• His son, Phaethon, drivesApollo’s sun chariot withdisastrous results.

Artemis- Goddess of the Woods,

Moon and the Hunt• She was the twinsister of Apollo,whose mother wasLeto and father wasZeus.• She was a chastehuntress, who alwayscarried a silver bowand arrows.• She ruled over theuntamed places of theearth.

Dionysus-God of Revelryand the Vine

• He is said to be theonly god onOlympus with amortal parent.• His creation of winebrings ecstasy anddrunkenness to hisrevelers.• Much of the ancientworld’s greatestpoetry was createdin his honor.

Ares-Cruell God of War• He was a ruthless andmurderous god, whodisplayed the worst ofhumanity’s traits.• He, along with grief,strife, panic, andterror, roams theearth.• Ironically, he was acoward, who fled thefield of battle.

Aphrodite-Goddess of Loveand Beauty

• She is the goddess of desireborn from sea foam. Anothermyth credits her mother asDione and her father as Zeus.• After all the gods on MountOlympus courted her, shemarried Hephaestus, the ugliestof the gods.• Because she was judged themost beautiful of all thegoddesses on Mount Olympusby Paris, the other goddessesenvied her.

Hermes- God of Mischief andMessenger of the Gods

• He was the precociousson of Zeus and Maia, aTitaness.• As a baby, he made alyre and pipe for his halfbrother,Apollo.• He carried Apollo’s goldenstaff and flew around theheavens and earth onwinged sandals.