Transcript Greek Gods and Goddesses

Greek Gods and
Goddesses
Begin note for classical Greece
Greek Gods and Goddesses
Greek people believed that the Gods and
Goddesses controlled nature.
These deities controlled every aspect of a
person life.
If a person were to anger the Gods, they
would be subject to his or her wrath for the
rest of their life.
These Gods and Goddesses lived on Mt.
Olympus.
Limited Power
Greek gods and Goddesses were not all
powerful.
Even thought these Gods and
Goddesses had special powers, they
looked like humans, they married, and
they even had children.
They also fought wars and played tricks
on each other.
Sacrifices
Most of the Greek people decided that
they would like to stay in the favor of
the Gods and Goddesses. Therefore,
they needed to offer the Gods
sacrifices.
The sacrifices would be made at a
temple that was made specifically for
that God.
ZEUS
Zeus was king of all
of the Gods
He was also the God
of the sky, rain , and
lightning
He also ruled over
all of Mt. Olympus
Hades
Hades was God of the underworld
Hades
Hades was God of the
underworld
He was the brother of
Zeus and Poseidon
He was the husband of
beautiful Persephone
He was the owner of
human souls
Aphrodite
Aphrodite was the
goddess of love and
beauty
She was the wife of
Hephaestus
ORACLE AT DELPHI
The Greeks believed that each person had a
fate or destiny.
They also believed that certain people could
prophesy about the future of other people.
One of the most famous was the Oracle At
Delphi.
She was located at the Temple of Apollo.
ORACLE AT DELPHI CONT.
The Oracle was a woman who sat deep inside
the temple in a room where steam hissed from
the earth.
She sat on a special tripod and listened to
questions. Then the priest would interpret her
answers.
She frequently gave answers in the form of
riddles.
Many heads of states would send envoys to
seek her council.
Greek Poetry and Fables
Greek poems ad stories are some of the
oldest in the world.
The earliest of these is called an epic.
These epics were long poems telling of
heroes of old and great battles.
Homer wrote the Illiad and the
Odyssey, about the war between Troy
and Mycenaea.
Aesop and his Fables
A Greek slave named Aesop began to
write his now famous fables around 550
B.C.
Each one of the fables ends with a
moral or a lesson.
One of the most famous is “The
Tortoise and the Hair”.
Greek Philosophers
The word philosophy means “love of
knowledge”.
Many Greek thinkers believed that the
human mind could understand
everything on earth and in the heavens.
These people were called Philosophers.
Most of these philosophers were also
teachers.
PYTHAGORAS
Pythagoras was a
Greek philosopher
and mathematician.
He came up with the
Pythagorean
Theorem
A²+B²=C²
Sophist
The sophist were
teachers in the
ancient Greece.
They traveled from
city to city teaching
people.
They said there was
no absolute right or
wrong.
Socrates
Socrates was originally a
sculptor who loved
philosophy.
He did not like the
Sophist.
He invented the Socratic
method.
He was put to death by
the Athenian leaders
Plato
Plato was a student of
Socrates.
He put forth many ideas
about government in his
book called the Republic.
He also believed that
men and women should
be very close to equal.
He also established a
school called the
Academy
REPUBLIC
Plato said
government should
be set up in levels
Philosopher
kings and rulers
Warriors
Everyone else.
Aristotle
Aristotle attended
Plato’s Academy.
He opened his own
school called
Lycenum.
He wrote more than
200 books.
He also came up
with the golden
mean.
Herodotus
He wrote the history
of the Persian Wars.
He is considered the
father of history.
He thought that the
God’s played a huge
role in the course of
wars.
Thucydides
Thucydides fought in
the Peloponnesian
Wars.
He stressed the idea
of having accurate
facts.
He saw war as the
act of humans and
politics, not Gods.
Review
Who is the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi?
Who is Zeus and where did he live?
Who is Aphrodite?
Who is Hades and where did he live?
What is a philosopher?
Name three philosophers and what they
contributed