A mythology is a collection of

myths or stories about a

specific person, culture,
religion, or any group with
shared beliefs. Most people
don’t consider mythology to
be entirely true, but they still
take it seriously.
“Myth has two main functions,” the poet and scholar Robert
Graves wrote in 1955.

“The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children

ask, such as ‘Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the
first man? Where do souls go after death?’…

The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system

and account for traditional rites and customs.”

In ancient Greece, stories about gods and goddesses and heroes

and monsters were an important part of everyday life. They
explained everything from religious rituals to the weather, and
they gave meaning to the world people saw around them.
Characteristics of a Myth in Literature

1.Myths are often told as if they were factual. These stories were
meant to offer reasonable explanations; therefore, the audience
believed these stories to be true.

2. Myths include gods and/or goddesses, and these figures often

have supernatural powers.

3. Myths include an explanation for how something came to be in

the world. Such stories have ancient origins; therefore, they did
not have the scientific explanations that we do today for such
phenomena as weather.

4. Myths often teach morals to their audience. Within many

myths, there is a lesson to be learned.
Greek Mythology: The Olympians

At the center of Greek mythology is the pantheon

of deities who were said to live on Mount
Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. From
their perch, they ruled every aspect of human life.
Olympian gods and goddesses looked like men
and women (though they could change
themselves into animals and other things) and
were–as many myths recounted–vulnerable to
human weaknesses and passions.
1. Zeus (Jupiter): the king of all the gods (and father to many) and god of weather, law and
fate. He is a sky god who controls lightning (often using it as a weapon) and thunder. Zeus is king of
Mount Olympus, the home of Greek gods, where he rules the world and imposes his will onto gods
and mortals alike.

2. Poseidon (Neptune) was god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses and is considered one of
the most bad-tempered, moody and greedy Olympian gods. He was known to be vengeful when
insulted. He is the son of Cronus and Rhea and was swallowed by his father along with Hades,
Demeter, Hestia and Hera.

3. Hades (Pluto) was the Greek god of the Dead. Hades was the supreme ruler of the Underworld.
Almost never did he leave his gloomy kingdom but was residing there instead, surrounded by
darkness and silence.
4. Hera (Juno): the queen of the gods and goddess
of women and marriage. Hera is the Queen of the
Gods and is the wife and sister of Zeus in the Olympian
pantheon. She is known for being the Goddess of
Marriage & Birth. Despite being the Goddess of
Marriage, she was known to be jealous and vengeful
towards the many lovers and offspring of her husband
Zeus.

5. Demeter (Ceres): Demeter is the goddess of

agriculture, harvest and presides over grains and the
fertility of the earth.

6. Hestia (Vesta): Hestia was the Goddess of hearth,

family and home. She is a virgin goddess of the hearth,
architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the
family, the home, and the state.
7. Aphrodite (Venus): goddess of beauty and love
8. Athena (Minerva): goddess of wisdom and defense/strategic warfare
9. Apollo (Apollo): god of prophesy, sun, light, music, poetry, healing and archery
10. Artemis (Diana): goddess of hunting, animals, and wilderness
11. Ares (Mars): god of war. Ares represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war,
which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the
goddess of intelligence.
12. Dionysus (Bacchus): god of
wine, grapes, pleasure and
festivity
13. Hephaestus (Vulcan): god
of fire, metalworking, blacksmith
and sculpture
14. Hermes (Mercury): god of
travel, merchants, commerce,
thieves, trickery, hospitality and
trade and Zeus’s personal
messenger.
15. Eros (Cupid): god of sexual love
and minion to Aphrodite
16. Persephone (Proserpine): She is
the beautiful goddess of spring and
Queen of the Underworld
satyr
1.Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

2. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

3. The thirty-three thieves thought that they

thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
1.Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of
thorns and thistles thumped and thundered
threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew
the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the
thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through
the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year
old thug thought of that morning.
1.Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
1.Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards

2.Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

3.Pirates Private Property

4.When you write copy you have the right to copyright the
copy you write.

5.A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
How many berries could a bare berry carry,
if a bare berry could carry berries?
Well they can't carry berries
(which could make you very wary)
but a bare berry carried is more scary!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't eat with your mouth full!

Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!