Myths and Legends
SWBAT discover commonalities between the primordial deities.
Do Now – Share Our Greek Characters
• Share out our Greek Characters.
Please tape your character bio to the walls (Just one strip of tape on
the top).
The Twelve Titans including Cronus and Rhea should go on the back wall.
All other characters place on other areas around the room.
Take your notebooks, and go on a museum walk reading
about our various primordial creatures. Take notes on any
commonalities they appear to share, or anything that it
striking to you. Be ready to report out. (Five minutes)
Commonalities
• Take note of the commonalities you have
found as you will want to include this in
your original creation myth.
Notes
• Please take brief notes as I speak on
Titanomachy.
The Titanomachy
• What happened immediately after [Kronos regurgitated his
children] is not clear, but the war between the gods and Titans the Titanomachy - soon begins. Unfortunately the epic poem of
that name, which would have told us much, is lost. The first
complete account we have is in Apollodorus (which was probably
written in the 1st century A.D.).
• Some of the children of the other Titans - such as Iapetos' son
Menoetius - fought alongside their forebears. Others - including
Iapetos' other children Prometheus and Epimetheus - did not.
Don’t worry….no one died
Since both sides of this war were immortal, no permanent
casualties were possible. Finally, however, the gods
triumphed with the aid of older powers.
The Cyclops are Freed!!
Uranus had long ago imprisoned the three Cyclopes and the
three Hundred-Handers (Hekatoncheires) in dark Tartaros.
Again advised by Gaia (Zeus’ mother), Zeus freed these
monstrous cousins of the Titans and was rewarded with their
aid. The Cyclopes gave lightning and thunder to Zeus to wield
as weapons, and in later accounts also created Hades' helmet
of darkness and Poseidon's trident.
We’re Free!! Thanks Zeus! You’re the best.
Your Grandpa Uranus made us sad when
imprisoned us 
The final battle – Rock throwing!
• The Hundred-Handers provided more direct assistance. In
the final battle, they kept the Titans under a constant
barrage of hundreds of thrown rocks, which together with
the other gods' strengths, particularly Zeus' thunderbolts,
overcame the Titans. The defeated Titans were hauled down
to Tartaros and imprisoned there, and the HundredHanders became their jailors.
Hecatoncheires – Hundred handed Giants
We got your back Zeus!
Where did the Titans Go???
• However, in other myths the Titans did not remain imprisoned.
In fact, some helped Zeus, and the women were most likely not
locked up…so they went on to have children.
• The mythological record is silent on most of the rest of the
Titans, but a later myth said that Kronos himself was
eventually released by Zeus, and he was assigned to rule
over the Isles of the Blessed, where the spirits of heroes
went after death.
Read how man was created in Greek
Mythology
• So, we have Zeus in place on Mt. Olympus. ….but
what about man? How were they created?
Prometheus and Epimetheus
• Read Prometheus and Epimetheus in groups of Four
To summarize, create a thirty second version of this tale. It can be done
in any way you would like.
Decide which moments are most
Important to tell.
Bios – Feb 11th
• Who did the bios for Ares and Uranus?
• Are there any more bios to be handed in?
(This is for a grade.)
Do Now – You have fifteen minutes
• Get into the groups assigned to you yesterday. Find a way of
presenting Prometheus and Epimetheus in 30 – 45 seconds.
• You may do this by –
• Having one person in the group do a fast telling of the story. (A rap, a
song, Or just shorten it to 30 seconds)
• Present through frozen pictures with someone saying one word per
picture or narrating.
• Acting out a quick scene.
• Do it as a commercial.
Why in a theatrical way??
Why tell a myth in a theatrical way??
Thursday Feb 12th
• Any more presentations??
• Please note we will have a quiz when we return. Make sure you are checking
my website to see what we have read, and any power points I have posted.
• Please make sure you are on my Remind.com
Take a Buzz feed Quiz
• WHICH MYTHICAL CREATURE
ARE YOU – BUZZFEED QUIZ
PEOPLE JUST DON’T RESPECT ME!!!
Quote by Zeus (sort of)
• Remember…Zeus was not happy that man was not fully
worshipping him and doing foolish things.
• 1. He was upset that they did not want to sacrifice a
portion of their food to him. (Prometheus tricked
him by giving him bones and not meat)
You gave them FIRE!? How dare you!!! - Zeus
• 2. He was upset Prometheus had given them fire.
(or had given it back to them)
Typical Woman Ruining Everything!!
• 3. He was upset Pandora opened up the box and let all evil out into
the world. (Then again, he created Pandora to be that way)
…I’m taking revenge to a whole new level! Zeus
He was clearly mad with Prometheus, and bound him up for 1,000 years.
Every night Prometheus’ liver was eaten up by an eagle.
• ….but Zeus was still upset.
The Great Flood
• Read THE GREAT FLOOD
• http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/greek-
mythology/videos/zeus-and-the-greatflood?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
Noah’s Ark
“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every intent of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Genesis
Quick Write
• Knowing that these are just myths, why do
you think Greek society at that time needed
characters like Zeus to look up to?
Read how Islands and life & death formed in
Japan
• As we read Izangi and Izanami, think about the similarities between this
creation myth and the Greek ones we read thus far.
Friday Feb 13th, 2015
• SWBAT Compare and contrast the creation myths.
• Let us return to The Flood. As we watch it, think about why
there are these recurring stories throughout different lands.
• What does something like a Flood Myth teach society??
Amaterasu – Sun Goddess of Shinto
Religion
Born from Izanagi’s left eye when he was
purifying himself from the underworld
In Popular Culture
• http://okami.neoseeker.com/wiki/Amaterasu
Creation Myths
Hawaii – Maui and the Creation of the Islands
• We will watch three myths that discuss how land masses and stars were
formed. How did we get islands, the sun, the moon, and the stars?? It all
seems rather mysterious, but it wont be once you know the story behind it.
• "Maui and the Creation of the Islands“ – Be ready to compare this
creation myth with the Japanese and Greek ones we read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4Svy3D3qU
Creation Myth – The Raven
Alaskan Tlingit Tribe
• http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/echo07.lan.s
tories.raven/the-raven-story/
Creation Myth – The Ten Suns
China
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
DEzgAiIV0zM
In groups of four
• Compare and contrast the creation myths we have read thus far.
Think about the morals it teaches (if any), how things came to
be formed, character traits, setting, etc…
• Eurynome and Orphion / Gaia & Uranus to Rhea & Cronus to Zeus (how the world was
formed and how the Gods came to power)
• Prometheus & Epimetheus (how man was created, and how evil came to mankind thanks to
Pandora)
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The Flood – How Zeus started over again
Izangi and Izanami – How life and death (and various Japanese Gods came to exist)
Hawaiian Islands
Alaskan Stars, Moon, and Sun
Chinese Suns
Find your own creation myth
•Find your own creation myth.
What does this say??
• Since Ancient Greeks worshipped Zeus, what does
this story possibly say about the culture of that
time?
• How does this inform our own culture in modern
day??