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GREEK MYTHOLOGY:
Culture & behavior

ANCIENT GREECE:
ALEXANDER THE
GREAT:
Relied on strategy
By the age of 25,
he was a king &
conquered many
lands.
Built 10 cities
June 10 : death of
ATG, due to Malaria
After his death, the
empire started
crumbling down.
Government, art, &
architecture =
ATGs legacy

PHILOSOPHY:
SOCRATES & PLATO
SOCRATES:
Made a method of
philosophy through
questioning people
(Socratic)
Master of discipline
Had a sharp tongue
Brought to trial due
to questioning the

young, & was

brought to death.

PLATO:
Socrates student
Had the thought
that there would be
another way of
living.
Serious about the
plans he made.
Created the
academy during
the Peloponnesian
war.
His student was
Aristotle(who
taught AGT)

HOMERS ODYSSEY:
The story was set
during the time of
the Trojan war.

About odyssey
who wanted to
return home to
his wife Penelope
They landed in
the land of the
Cyclops, &
odyssey poked
the eye of the
Cyclops.

 His men turned

to pigs
They had to pass
through the
sirens(Women
singing to lead
them to their
death)
Odyssey
returned home
and dressed up
as a homeless
man
After 20 years
the people told
Penelope to
marry someone
new.
Penelope agreed
to marry the
man who could
shout an arrow
the way odyssey
did, no one
succeeded.

it and of course
was able to do it,
so he finally reunited with
Penelope.
Women: Pandoras box

Odyssey, who was

still dressed as a
homeless man was
the last one who
volunteered to do

power greed
cronus
cowardness
fear

ELEMENTS OF THE
GREEK CREATION
STORY
Greek mythology is
all about flaws

PATTANAIK:
Myths
Business/
relationships

culture

behavior

Myths = lookback
CREATION:
Chaos

love

Conflict/
crous/rhea
gaea/Uranus
prophecy

OLYMPIANS:

zeus vs

 Zeus overthrows
Cronus
Both struggle with
power
Age of man
Filled with pride &
flaws

HUMAN ATTRIBUTES:
Anthropomorphic
Jealous
Greed
Fear
Rage
Lust
Only governed with
flaw

WESTERN
CULTURE(MAGESTIC)

Aggressive
Goal oriented
Fatalistic
Power

Desire
Flawed
Superior
Individualism
Determined
Democratic
PYRAMUS & THYSBE
They were in love, but
their parents forbid them
to marry
They decided to meet in
a tree, but when thysbe
arrived a lioness
appeared causing thysbe
to run and lose her cloak.
When pyramus saw her
cloak he thought that
thysbe was dead so he
killed himself using a
sword.
When thysbe saw a dead
pyramus she also killed
herself
This story is basically
romeo & Juliet.
CUPID & PSYCHE:
Psyche was 1 of the 3
daughters of the king.
Was very beautiful
Mortal
It was said that Venus
could not equal to this
mortal.

 Cupid is the son of

Venus
Assigned by venus to
make psyche fall in love
with the mst despicable
creature in the whole
world (bitter much?)
Fell in love with psyche
when he saw her
Cupid did not follow his
Mothers instructions
because he fell in love
with psyche.
Men were just content
by looking at her and
worshipping her
Psyches father went to
Apollo to ask for advice
on how his daughter can
get a good husband.
Apollo was told about
psyche through cupid
which made Apollo give
terrible advice (psyche
must dress in mourning
& be set on top of a
rocky hill & must be left
alone where she will
meet her destined
husband, a fearful
winged servant, stronger
than the gods)
The kingdom mourned
for psyche as she left.

Psyche was shown to a

palace where she will
live in.
One day she decided to
go down and visit her
family, and when she
told her sisters they
started becoming envy.
Psyche wanted to find
out who her husband
was, so one night she lit
an oil lamp and went to
cupids room and found
out it was cupid, but she
accidentally spilled oil
and woke up cupid.
They fought and cupid
ran away to his mother
who has placed him in
prison, and psyche
sacrificed herself to be
venus slave.
Psyche almost died
because of one of the
chores, but cupid saved
her.
Pygmalion and galatea:
Venus cursed the
women to be prostitutes
Galatea hates women so
he decided to make his
own sculpture.

 The sculpture was so

perfect that he fell in
love with it.
During venus festival,
he prayed to Venus to
turn his statue to a real
person, which venus
did.
They had 2 children in
the end.