- Greek mythology is the collection of stories about the Greek Gods in the Ancient Greek Religion.
Hesiod's Theogony
- The Theogony ia a poem by Hesiod (c.700 BCE) written in the epic dialect of ancient greek, and is considered the to be the source of Greek Mythology.
- The Theogony describes the origin and genealogy of the Greek Gods.
The Twelve Olympian Gods
- The Twelve most important Gods in the Greek Pantheon (Temple of all Gods) who lived on Mount Olympus (100 miles west of Thessaloniki.
- Plato in ‘The Phaedrus’ (Dialogue) places the twelve Gods in the Zodiac each representing a month.
- The Twelve Olympians
The Titans
- The Titans were an older generation of Giant Gods who possessed incredible strength and who lived on Mount Othrys in Greece. The twelve most important Titans constituted the first Greek Pantheon (Temple of all Gods).
- The first twelve Titans were the children of Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father sky).
- In a ten year war called the ‘Titanomachy’, the Titans fought against the Twelve Olympians. The Titans were defeated and replaced by the Twelve Olympians who made their home on Mount Olympus.
The Muses
- In Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology there were nine Muses.
- Each was dedicated to the inspiration for Science, Poetry, and the Arts.
Top Ten Greek Myths
- Demeter and Persephone
- Heracles and the Twelve Labours of Heracles
- Iliad: Helen of Troy and the Trojan War
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Oedipus
- Odysseus and the Odyssey and his wife Penelope.
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- Pandora and Pandora's Box
- Prometheus
- Theseus and the Minotaur
The Roman Grand Tour
- The Romans were brought up on Greek Mythology and the wealthy would travel for between two to five years on the Roman Grand Tour.
- They visited all the locations where the Myths of the Greek Gods had taken place.
Main Authors of Greek Mythology
- Hesiod's Theogony, and ‘Works and Days’.
- Homer's The Ilead and The Odyssey.
- Herodotus, The Histories.
- Aeschylus, ‘Prometheus Bound’.
- Plato, ‘Phaedrus (Dialogue)’, ‘Apology’.
- Cicero, ‘De Divinatore’.
Main Author of Roman Mythology
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