Transcript Sailing the Wine Dark Sea p. 4-8

Sailing the Wine Dark Sea
p. 4-8
By John Grosel and
Noah Goldstein
Character Overview
Basic
Character Overview
Demeter=
Harvest Goddess
Daughter-Persephone=
Hades=
Goddess of Spring
God of the Underworld and
Zeus's brother
Story
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Hades takes Persephone to
underworld
Demeter unable to find
Persephone
 Zeus tells where she is
 Goes to Underworld
Demeter comes to
underworld and makes a deal
with Hades
 Persephone will live with
him for four months of
the year and the rest are
spent with the gods on
Mount Olympus
Before Persephone left the
Underworld
 Hades
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makes
Persephone eat four
pomegranate seeds
 Pomegranate
seeds are
food of the dead
Hades
now
Persephone’s part time
master
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Why we have Winter
This
story is an explanation of why
we have four seasons in the year
Persephone
leaves for the underworld
and causes winter to come
When
she returns, the Earth goes back to
normal and Persephone brings back the true
beauty of the world
How Cahill looks at history
through questions
Shows how he is thinking
Where did the Greeks come from?
Why are the Greeks important?
Who were the Greeks?
Influences
Homer
Greek
Mythology
Thomas Cahill
Born
in New York
Attended
Taught
a Jesuit High School
to read Latin and ancient Greek
Inspired
Intrigued
Saw
by stories from Homer
by arts of ancient Greeks
them at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cahill’s Approach
Learns
history in pieces
Tries to dig deeper and gets feelings
of the ancient Greeks and how they
lived
Gets
facts
Compares
and contrasts them
Connects
them to his own life
Facts that he learns become real
Cahill’s Task
Wants
to “resurrect the ancient
Greeks” in order to explain myths
Wants to explain Greek myths to
help give a better understanding of
the Greeks
Thank You!
Please Remember:
These Myths are very confusing
So please be patient and read
carefully