Activity 9: Working with pictures

Have a look at these pictures and then do the activities:

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1. Can you identify these gods/goddesses? Here you have a clue, but you have to make some sentences using it. 

In picture X there is/there could be a/an/the Egyptian, Aztecan, Greek, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist god.

2. Write at least 10 differences and similarities between the Greek god and the others.

Activity 8: Greek gods, spirits ans monsters

You have to write a short biography of the following Greek gods, spirits and monsters. 
You can use this Encyclopedia on line: http://www.theoi.com/Encyc_A.html

• Chaos
• Gaia
• Rhea
• Kronos
• Pontus
• Tethys
• Uranos
• Atlas
• Iapetos
• Oceanus
• Erinyes
• Hesperides
• Cyclopes
• Mnemosyne
• Nereids
• Leto

Activity 7: Theogony, Part III

Have a look at this picture and then do the exercises:

• Complete these sentences:

- Gaia and Uranos were ____________ parents.

- Erinyes, Giants and the three nymphs were _______________ children.

- Leto was ____________ mother.

- Tethys was _______________ daughter.

- Kronos was ______________ husband.

- Hermes was ___________ son.

Activity 6: Theogony, Part II

Read this synopsis of Theogony (II) by Hesiod and then answer the questions:


Kronos, who had established himself as leader of the Titans, married his sister Rhea but, mindful of the prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him, he made sure to swallow each of the children she birthed: Hestia (goddess of the hearth and domesticity), Demeter (goddess of the earth and fertility), Hera (goddess of women and marriage), Hades (god of the Underworld), Poseidon (god of the sea) and Zeus (god of the sky and thunder, and later to become the king of the gods) in that order. However, with the help of Gaia and Ouranos, Rhea managed to trick Kronos into saving Zeus from this fate, and then to further trick him into vomiting up his other five children. 


Joining with Zeus, the other offspring of Rhea and Kronos (collectively known as the Olympian gods, for their chosen home on Mount Olympus), along with the Kyklopes, Prometheus and Epimetheus, then waged a great ten-year war on the Titans and the Giants for control of the cosmos. Eventually Zeus released the Hecatonchires from their imprisonment in Tartarus to shake the earth, allowing him to gain the upper hand in the struggle and, casting the fury of his thunderbolts at the Titans, throw them down into Tartarus.

• Who was the most powerful Olympian god? Did he create the world?
• Were the Greek gods eternal? Were they immortal?
• In part I and part II of Theogony, how many ways of "reproduction" are there in the text?