CPR
Day Thirteen
Happy Friday
September 5th, 2014
When You Come In
- Please sign in.
- There is a shmoop reading assignment on schoology. If you would like to pick your story before 8:10, you can do so AFTER you look over the choices on shmoop--details are on schoology.
Big Idea
- Listen and look now for resonances, echoes, patterns.
- parents being afraid of being overthrown by children
- horrific deaths or punishments/tortures
- incest
- castration
- What have you heard so far?
Barbie Presentations
1. Today, people told a brief story (one minute) about his/her god/goddess, then presented the myth Barbie.
2. We listened the first time through the presentation, then took notes as we went back through the key points.
3. The following gods/goddess were presented--and what do we remember about them from yesterday? You guys tell me, and I’ll take notes..
- Gaea
- mother earth
- grandma to Zeus
- married to Uranus
- Uranus
- made Cyclopes from his castration blood
- castrated by Cronus with a sickle!
- sky
- Rhea
- queet of the Titans
- saves Zeus from eating
- daughter of Gaea and Uranus
- married to Cronus
- Cronus
- castrates his dad (Uranus)
- overthrown by Zeus
- eats all his babies, except Zeus
- father of Olympians
- Titan
- pukes up five of Zeus’s siblings
- Atlas
- holds up earth because he sided with Titans against Zeus
- super-strong
- Titan
- Prometheus--started here THURSDAY
- helped Zeus and the Olympians
- helped humans by (1) creating the first man and (2) giving them fire
- punished by Zeus by being tied to a mountain and having his liver pecked out e’ryday
- Zeus
- king of Olympians
- married to Hera
- overthrow the Titans
- promiscuous
- god of weather
- lighting bolt
- Hera
- jealous all the time
- goddess of marriage and childbirth
- vengeful
- Poseidon
- god of the sea
- trident
- Amphitrite
- brother to Zeus and Hades
- created horses
- flooded cities and shipwrecked sailors
- has a Cylclopes kid
- Hades
- god of underworld
- pet Cerebrus
- helmet of invisibility
- brother to Zeus and Poseidon
- hates Zeus
- rich in minerals and metals
- helped Zeus kill Asclepius (story to follow from Malary)
- Athena
- goddess of wisdom
- gave the olive tree to Athens
- symbol is the owl
- patron goddess of Athens
- virgin goddess
- made Medusa ugly
- had Trojan horse idea--brilliant! (and devastating to Troy)
- sprang out of Zeus’s forehead, fully formed
- Aphrodite
- Hephaestus
- Ares
- Artemis
- goddess of the hunt
- protector of young
- expert archer
- has her own cult of hunters
- deer are sacred to her
- virgin goddess
- Orion wanted to get with her--eh, he got killed and turned into a constellation (Orion’s Belt)
- Apollo
- Hermes
- Dionysus
- Demeter
- Persephone
Homework
- Shmoop Reading Assignment
- Study the Greek god names and their Roman names (QUIZ THURSDAY), so you recognize them when you see them--http://quizlet.com/47490884/greek-roman-names-of-myth-gods-and-goddesses-flash-cards/
Emilee E Venus and Adonis
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