Prometheus and Io

3. -known as the rebel Titan -Man’s best friend -Wisest Titan -son of Lapetos & Clymene
4. •Was a priestess of Hera •Seduced by Zeus •Changed in to a heifer
5. • When Prometheus went to the rocks, he met a strange visitor: a cow that speaks like a girl.
Her voice carried sorrow and pain but still sounds beautiful.
6. • The strange visitor was Io. She used to be a beautiful woman and Zeus fell in love with her.
When Zeus’s wife, Hera, heard of this, Zeus turned Io into a heifer to hide her. • The shrewd
Hera asked for the heifer as a present and Zeus reluctantly gave Io away. Hera gave Io to a
monster- with thousand eyes, Argus- to look after her.
7. • Zeus missed Io so much so he asked his son Hermes, the messenger god, to find ways of
killing Argus. Hermes did and succeed what he was told.
8. • It seemed that Io would be free but Hera sent her flies to drive her insane. • Prometheus
reveals a prophecy that Io will wander for a long time in the beastly body, tormented by flies.
But finally she’ll reach the Nile River where Zeus will restore her human form and give her a
son.
9. • From this son will be Hercules, born the greatest heroes, and whom Prometheus would
gain his freedom.
10. • Cupid shots an arrow at Zeus and instantly he fell for a pretty maiden, Europa.
11. • That morning, Europa awakens from a strange dream in which two continents were
fighting for her. She goes down to the ocean, with her friends to bathe and pick flowers, afraid
the dream might visit again. • Zeus arrives, disguised himself on to a beautiful bull. Europa
climbs on top of his back and as soon as she does, Zeus gallops away.
12. • Europa clings to his horn tightly as they gallop over the waves.
13. • Terrified, she understands that it was a god, Zeus. She beg for him to let her go but the
god comforts her, explaining that he loves her and that he’ll bring her to an island called Crete.
• When they arrived, Zeus returned to his human self and made love with her. She bore him
two sons: Minos and Rhadamanthus
14. MINOS
15. RHADAMANTHUS
16. • At the creation of the world, there was only three Cyclops, but they reproduced and had
many off springs. They crafted Zeus’s thunderbolts and were known for their strength and
hostility to strangers.
17. • Thus, when Odysseus (Ulysses) sails for from Troy and beaches his boat on their shore,
great danger awaits. • Odysseus and his crew saw a cave on the beach and walked inside to
explore. The enormous Polyphemus pushes a huge rock over the cave’s opening, effectively
trapping the men inside.
18. • He eats few of Odysseus’s men and fell asleep. The situation seemed hopeless but
Odysseus came to an idea: he finds an enormous timber and sharpens the end of it. The next
day, Odysseus then offers a wine which the beast drinks and promptly fell asleep. While
Polympheus sleeps, Odysseus and his men heat the end of the timber and ram it into the
Cyclops’s eyes blinding him.
19. • Centuries had passed, the cyclops remained shape-less, huge and his eyes blinded. But he
actually fell for a nymph named Galatea. • NYMPH- in Greek mythology is a minor female
nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. There are 5 different
types of nymphs, Celestial Nymphs, Water Nymphs, Land Nymphs, Plant Nymphs and
Underworld Nymphs.
20. • In a much later, Galatea fell for him too. In this time of story, Polyphemus got his eye
back. Galatea told her sister, Doris, about her affection but Doris would only insult her.
21. • But Polyphemus did not end up with Galatea. She instead settled for a prince named Acis
who Polyphemus then killed.
22. • Acis then turned into a river god. Polyphemus never loved any other woman but Galatea
or that any other woman would love him back.