Prometheus

PandoraWhat’s her story?

Deucalion and PyrrhaWho were they?

Who can be the first to make a T-T connection?

According to the ancient Greeks, how was the universe created?

According to John Milton, author of Paradise Lost …

First there was Chaos, the vast immeasurable

abyss,Outrageous as the sea,

dark, wasteful, wild.

Night Erberus

Love

With Love (Eros) came order and beauty. Together they helped banish confusion. With Love came light and with light came day.

And then came the Earth

represented by

________.

and the sky,

embodied by_________.

What happens when the Mother Earth and Father Sky get together?

They make ….the 3 hundred handed, fifty headed giants.

3 Cyclopes

and a bunch of Titans.

But there was a problem…

Uranus hated his 100 handed giant sons, so he locked them away.

Gaia hated seeing her babies abused, so she appealed to her Titan son __________ to go after his abusive dad.

Blood from Uranus’ mutilation gave rise to more beings, a race of giants and the Erinyes (the Furies).

Cronus takes a Titan bride named ________________. but there’s a problem. He has it in his mind that his offspring will harm him as he harmed his father.

So what does he do to his babies?

He eats the first five of them!

Rhea gets smart and sends the 6th, baby Zeus, away and gives Cronus a boulder wrapped in a blanket.

Zeus grows up, returns, confronts Cronus, and compels him to vomit up his siblings, all of whom emerge

full grown.

The titans and the gods go to war.The gods are victorious because

Zeus enlists the help of the hundred handed giants and…

A Titan named Prometheus

Prometheus’ brother Atlas did not fare well after the Titans lost the battle which nearly destroyed the universe.

Zeus had to fight one more Titan named Typhon, and this time he used his thunderbolts.

Mount Etna