The Greek Gods

Calisthenics

• 1. Sit down silently, and place your post-card HW on the upper RIGHT hand corner of your desk.

• 2. Copy your hw: Finish your Greek Gods Family Tree• 3. – Just Write The Answers!!!: • 1 .What is the difference between “Greek Classical

Culture” and “Hellenistic Culture”• 2. What did Alexander the Great do that made him so

important?

• 4. Answer the Question!

Test Prep!

Brain Pop!

• http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/greekgods/preview.weml

Your Task

• You are a Greek historian, attempting to create a family tree of all the Greek Gods. There are so many Greek gods throughout history that you really have to work hard to research who the gods were and how they were related.

• Your task is to create a family tree for the following Greek Gods!

Greek Religion

• The Greeks were Polytheistic (meaning they believed in more than one god)

Greek Gods

• The Greek gods were considered to be more “human-like” than other Gods. They looked and acted like people, but they had special powers.

Zeus

• Was considered to be the (main) God who ruled over all of the others.

Location

• All 12 of the Greek Gods and Goddesses lived on Mount Olympus and Greek people went to Olympia to worship the gods.

Greek Boys

• Greek boys were encouraged to grow up to be heroes like the ones they read about in Epics.

I want to be like Poseidon!

Theogony by Hesoid

• This story tells the creation of the gods and the world from the Greek perspective. Before creation, the universe was empty. Gaea, Earth was born cut of the emptiness. She had a son, Uranus. Uranus became the king of the sky and mated with Gaea to produce the Titans. Uranus imprisoned the Titans in Gaea’s body. The youngest Titan, Cronus, attacked Uranus and freed himself and the other Titans, Cronus became the king of the gods.

• Cronus married his sister Rhea and they had six children. Fearing his children would turn against him, Cronus swallowed the first five as they were born. The last child, Zeus, was saved. When Zeus grew up he rescued his siblings from Cronus’ body. Zeus and his siblings then defeated Cronus and the Titans in a war. The victors chose Zeus as their chief god and decided to live on Mount Olympus. They became the most powerful group of gods.

Thinking it through…

• What did the Greek god Cronus do to his children?– A. he turned them into humans– B. he started a war with them– C. He put them up into the sky as gods– D. He swallowed them as they were born