GODS AND GODDESSES

CHAPTER 4 SECTION 1

SURVIVING THE “DARK AGE”

• Bards-singing storytellers– Helped to keep Mycenaean traditions alive.– Homer, was a blind poet, who live 700’s– Homer composed the _______________ and the

_________________.– Set during the Trojan War.

• Supposedly fought Troy in the mid-1200’s.

Iliad

• Story of Trojan Prince Paris and Mycenaean Queen Helen.

• War

Trojan Horse

• Mycenaeans trickery

Odyssey

• Story of Mycenaean kings return home.

• Odysseus was his name.

Greek Heritage

Greeks and Gods

Gods and Goddesses

• Zeus- chief among the gods

• 12 High gods live on ____________________.

Greek Festivals

• Religious Festivals very important

• Every 4 years they held athletic contests at Olympia– Olympic Games.

• Greeks also developed plays in honor of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility.

• Permanent theaters were soon built in many cities.

Major Greek Gods

Olympian Gods• Apollo• Ares• Hermes• Poseidon• ZeusOlympian Goddesses• Aphrodite• Athena• Artemis• Hera.

Other Greek God

• Hestia

• Demeter

• Dionysus

• Hephaestus

• Hades