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Myths
Culture
The Arts
Olympics
Greece
The Arts
Facts
Pictures
Hellenistic Period,
Paintings, & Artists
Theater
Temples
Temple of Apollo
Pots & Statues
Greek Pot
Statue of Alexander
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The Arts
Hellenistic Period, Paintings, & Artists
• The Hellenistic Period of Greek art, 323 to 332
B.C., is characterized with the great artistic
centers spreading from the mainland to the
islands.
• Greek paintings come mainly from paintings on
pottery, Greek writings, and copies made by
ancient Romans.
• The most famous Greek sculptors were Phidans,
Praxitels, Lysippus, and Myron. Only a few
paintings have survived.
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The Arts - Temples
• Greek temples are important in Greece. A Greek
temple consisted of an arrangement of different
columns around a long, inner chamber. The best
known temples were in Athens around 400 B.C.
• The Greeks built the temple of Apollo at Didyma,
Turkey (about 300 B.C.). The design of the temple
was known as Dipteral, which means two sets of
columns surrounding the interior section.
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The ArtsThe
- Pots
Arts
& Statues
• The Greeks thought that there was a perfect shape
for any object. It could be a simple clay pot or a
huge temple. They used mathematics and ideas about
what was good in art.
• Greek pots were used for storing water, oil, or wine,
but some of them were used when they were buried.
• Greek statues were made from stone or bronze. The
early statues were not life-like. As their skill
developed they became better. Most stone statues
were painted but have lost their color.
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Culture
Facts
Pictures
Clothing
Clothing
Jewelry
Accessories
Theater
Masks
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Culture - Clothing
• Islands began producing silk, a luxurious material
that only rich people could afford.
• Most clothing was made out of wool or linen until
they began importing cotton from India in the 5th
century B.C.
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Culture - Clothing
• Men and women’s clothing were very different but
all that mattered was if you were in style.
• The most popular style was the Chiton and
Himation. Himations were worn by men and
Chitons by women.
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Culture - Jewelry
• Women were not very powerful outside their
home so there was no point in dressing up.
People that were wealthy wore fine jewelry.
• Jewelry was made out of silver, gold, and gold
wire along with jewels, amethyst, and emeralds.
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Myths
Stories
The Gods
•Zeus
•Demeter
Cyclops’ Cave
Pictures
Hermes
Zeus
Mt. Olympus
Arachne
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Myths - The Gods
Why Gods Were Created
The gods were created to explain how the world
works and its teachings. They also help explain
nature and its forces. Greeks believe in gods
because generation after generation told their
families and friends the stories and they passed
them on. Soon the Greeks started to believe so
strongly that it became their religion. There was
a god for almost everything.
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Myths - The Gods
The People
Everyday they had life-giving, the birth of people
and animals and life-taking, such as death. The
people would pray to the gods for help, love and
beauty, a good life , before battle, for help with
crops, and for wisdom.
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Myths - The Gods
Mighty Figures
There were two gods, Dionysus - goddess of grapes and
wine, and Demeter - goddess of corn and growing
things. These two were set apart of the other twelve
because they suffer “everlasting grief” and they also
are goddesses of plants and living creatures.
About the Gods
Gods are able to fall in love and get hurt, to lie
sometimes, and even die. They are just like humans but
they have special powers and are greater than
anything.
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Myths - The Gods
In ancient Greece there were many things in nature
that no one could explain. So as time went on there
started to be explanations. For example, gods like
Zeus who made it thunder and lightning. The Greeks
were not the only ones who had myths. The Romans
had the same gods but different names.
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Myths - The Gods
Here is the list of Greek and Roman gods:
GREEK
ROMAN
ZEUS
JUPITER
HERA
JUNO
POSEIDON
NEPTUNE
HADES
PLUTO
HESTIA
VESTA
ARES
MARS
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Myths - The Gods
(continued)
GREEK
ROMAN
DIONYSUS
DIONYSUS
ATHENA
MINERVA
APOLLO
APOLLO
APHRODITE
VENUS
HERMES
MERCURY
ARTEMIS
DIANA
HEPHESTUS
VULCAN
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Myths - The Gods
Zeus was father to many of the gods. His first
child was Hermes who had winged ankles and a hat,
and traveled faster than thought. He also had twins,
Apollo and Artemis. Apollo ruled the Sun and
Artemis ruled the Moon. Another was Aphrodite,
goddess of love and beauty. Other children included
Ares, god of war, and Athena, goddess of wisdom,
who sprang armed and fully grown from her father’s
head.
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Myths - The Gods
Zeus was married to Hera and he learned not to cheat
on her for he feared his wife’s power. He also had two
brothers, Poseidon, who ruled the seas and waters, and
Hades, who ruled the underworld and the dead.
The gods were said to live on Mount Olympus where
they feasted on nectar and ambrosia. Two of the gods
lived on Earth, Dionysus, goddess of grapes and wine,
and Demeter, goddess of corn and growing things.
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Myths - Zeus
Gaea, the Earth, and Uranos, the sky and mountains,
was born of Chaos. Uranos was Gaea’s equal so brother
and sister gave birth to the first divine generation.
Cronus and Rea, Gaea and Uranus children, gave birth
to the second divine generation. They gave birth to six
children. Five of them were swallowed by their father,
Cronus. When Rea gave birth to the sixth child, she
saved him from his father. She named him Zeus. Zeus
was hidden and was raised on goat’s milk from his pet
goat, Amalthea, and the honey from the bees.
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Myths - Zeus
When Zeus grew older he tricked his father into
drinking a drug that would bring back to life his five
children he had swallowed. When Demeter, Hera,
Hades, and Poseidon came back to life they helped
their younger brother, Zeus, kill Cronus and the Titans.
Zeus became god of the heavens and Hades, god of the
underworld. Poseidon became god of the sea. Hera and
Zeus were married and Hera became queen of the
heavens.
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Myths - Demeter
Demeter was goddess of the Earth and mother of
Persephone, her only daughter.
Hades was god of the underworld and deeply in love
with Persephone. He asked Zeus, ruler of all the gods,
to get married to her. Zeus agreed for them to get
married.
One day Persephone was out picking wild flowers. She
didn’t know anything about Hades. As she was picking
wild flowers she found a flower so beautiful that she
had never seen . She wanted to be the first to pick
the flower. Then the Earth opened and she fell down
to the underworld. She was forced to marry to Hades.
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Myths - Demeter
Demeter was very sad and would not do anything to
help the Earth. She said that she wouldn’t do anything
until her daughter returned. Zeus ordered her to
come back and when Persephone heard this she was so
happy that she could eat. She ate eight seeds and
went home. When Demeter saw her she was happy.
Her mother asked her if she ate anything and she said
only eight seeds. Her mother said she would have to
live for eight months of the year in the underworld
with Hades and four months on Earth with Demeter.
So that is how winter and summer started.
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Myths
The Cyclop’s Cave
The Cyclops is the story about a monster. A man
named Ulysses came along with his men and
bumped into the monster. The monster liked to
eat men so he started to eat Ulysses’ men. Ulysses
got very mad so he started to talk to the monster.
He asked him if he had ever had wine. The
monster answered, “No”, so he offered him some.
The monster took it, drank the whole bottle, and
got very drunk and very tired. The monster asked
what Ulysses’ name was. He answered, “Nobody”.
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The Cyclop’s Cave (continued)
Ulysses told him that he should take a nap and
the monster did. Ulysses and the men that were
left came up with a plan to stick a sword in the
Cyclop’s eye. Most of the men held on to the
monster’s arms while Ulysses was holding the
sword above his eye. He struck it in his eye and
the Cyclops woke and was screaming. The men
got away and the other Cyclops came and asked
who did this to him. He said, “Nobody did it!
Nobody did it!”
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How Arachne Turned Into a Spider!
Arachne was a weaver, a weaver whom all the people
loved. An elderly woman came up to her. “You weave
very well but you’re not the best weaver!” Arachne got
mad and said, “Who do you think is the best weaver?”
“I know who the best weaver is. It’s Athena, the
beautiful goddess of wisdom!” “I’m better than she is
at weaving!”
Little did she know Athena was dressed up as an
elderly woman. Athena got really mad and challenged
her to a weaving contest. Arachne said yes!
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How Arachne Turned Into a Spider! (continued)
Arachne made a very mean weaving making fun of the
gods and goddesses. Then Athena got so mad she
broke the weaving and Arachne felt so foolish she
hung herself. Athena felt badly and said, “Live, but
you shall know what you have done and hang for all
eternity as a spider!”
I think this myth is supposed to teach you about not
being selfish or that no one is better than anybody
else.
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Olympics
Facts
Pictures
Introduction
Mt. Olympus
The Gods
(with spear & discus)
Mt. Olympus
Sport Equipment
Events
Horse, Wheel, &
Boxing Glove
Discus, Javelin, Boxer
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Olympics - Introduction
•
The Olympics were the most important of all the Greek games.
•
The Greeks held their first Olympics in 776 B.C.
•
The games were named after Mount Olympus, the highest peak in
Greece.
•
Like all major sports contests, the Olympic Games were part of their
religious festival.
•
Olympia was a perfect site for sports competition because the land in
the broad river valley was flat.
•
Girls and slaves were forbidden to compete in the Olympic games.
•
Women were absolutely forbidden to attend the games. Those who
tried to see the competition were subject to the death penalty!
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Olympics - The Gods
• The main purpose of the Olympics and other public
events and festivals was to honor the gods.
• Greek games took place at four different shrines.
Those games that honored the god Zeus took place
at Olympia and Nemea; those celebrating Poseidon
were played at Isthmia in Cornith; and Apollo’s
games were held at Delphi.
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Olympics - The Gods
• The Olympic games honored Zeus, the father of
the Greek Gods. The games were named after
Mount Olympus, the highest peak in Greece. The
Greeks believed that Zeus sat on a golden throne
atop Mount Olympus and ruled all other gods and
all of the Greeks.
• The Greeks believed that Zeus and the other gods
took special delight in watching great athletes
display their skill and strength in opening
competition.
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Olympics - Events
•
The Greeks considered the Olympics so important that nothing, not
even war, was allowed to interfere with them.
•
Every fourth summer, hundreds of Greeks stopped whatever they
were doing and set off to Olympia to attend the Olympic games.
•
At first this competition consisted of one event, a foot-race of
about 200 yards.
•
Later the Olympics were expanded to include longer races,
wrestling, boxing, discus throwing, horse races, and chariot races.
•
Women had their own games, held every four years in honor of
Hera.
•
Coroebus became the first recorded winner at the Olympic games.
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