Uranus was the primordial god of the sky. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid dome of brass, decorated with stars, whose edges rested upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. Uranus was the literal sky, just as his consort Gaea was the earth. The
Pan was closely identified with several other rustic deities including Aristaios (Aristaeus), the shepherd-god of northern Greece who shared the god's titles of Agreus (Hunter) and Nomios (Shepherd), the pipe-playing Phrygian satyr Marsyas who challenged Apollon to a musical contest, and Aigip...
56、e land,Of the earth; Terrain, terrain, terrain, terrain; The earth, the earthThe ball, the land, the earth.The Underworld of Underworld mythology now also refers to the Underworld.Uranus god, husband of earth goddess, father of the giants. Now refers to the dayWang xing.Venus, the...
UranusandGaea •BirthofUranus:fingertipofGaea,hope,future,representationofHeaven•CharacterofUranus:light,heat,pure&omnipresent•CharacterofGaea:firm,flat，solid&lifesustaining OffspringofGaea •Gaea:Uranus,Pontus&Ourea•GeaeUranus:Giants:Cyclops(oneeyed)&Hecatonchires(hundred-handed);Titans;Oceanus...
b2 u2 Greek and Roman Mythology UnitOneGreekandRomanMythology WhatisMythology?Thestudy,analysis,andinterpretationofthecollectedmythsofasocietyandhowtheyrelatebacktothecorevaluesoftheculture.•Whatismyth?•Originally,theGreekwordmythossimplymeant„authoritativespeech,‟„story,‟or„plot‟ •Mythis...
Briareus:Monster of hundred hands; son of Uranus and Gaea. Briseis:Captive maiden given to Achilles; taken by Agamemnon in exchange for loss of Chryseis, which caused Achilles to cease fighting, until death of Patroclus. Cadmus:Brother of Europa; planter of dragon seeds from which first Thebans...
Briareus:Monster of hundred hands; son of Uranus and Gaea. Briseis:Captive maiden given to Achilles; taken by Agamemnon in exchange for loss of Chryseis, which caused Achilles to cease fighting, until death of Patroclus. Cadmus:Brother of Europa; planter of dragon seeds from which first Thebans...
Greek and Roman mythology优质精品课件.ppt,Greek and Roman Mythology Match the Gods on the left with Rome or Greece on the right Conclusion ■ Judging from the Matching game, most of us can not clarify the Roman Gods and the Greek Gods correctly. ■ Actua
Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam (aphros) of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uranus, that had been thrown into the sea by Kronos after he had unmanned his father. (Hesiod. Theog. 190; compare Anadyomene.) With the exception of the ...
Because both Ge (Earth) and Ouranos (Uranus, Heaven) had given him prophetic warning that his rule would be overthrown by a son of his own, he took to swallowing his children at birth. He swallowed his first-born daughter Hestia, then Demeter and Hera, and after them Plouton [Hades] ...