GREEK LITERATURE

GREEK LITERATURE

-Western Civilization; democracy; issues of war, role of women, and humanity's obligations to the divine

Homer

made Iliad and Odyssey

Iliad

Trojan War; Achilles, embodies Greek heroic

ideals; tragedy; glory, wrath, homecoming and fate

Odyssey

tragedy & comedy; home to Ithaca disguised

as a beggar.

Hesiod

didactic poetry (instructive and moralizing;

major source on Greek mythology; heroic past

Theogony

systematic account of creation;God; ages

of mankind; Golden Age; practical realities of daily life.

Euripides

92 plays.

Cronus

Titan ruler of the universe; father of Zeus

Zeus/Jupiter

sky; oak and the thunderbolt.

Hera/Juno

marriage; peacock and cow

Poseidon/Neptune

sea; horse and trident.

APHRODITE(Venus)

love & beauty;myrtle tree & dove

DIONYSUS (Bacchus)

vine; entered Olympus last.

Ares/Mars

war; vulture and dog; bloody spear

APOLLO (Phoebus)

music and healing; archer, and

hunted with a silver bow; laurel tree, crow, and dolphin

Artemis/Diana

hunt and protector of women; cypress tree and deer.

Athena(Minerva)

wisdom;owl and olive tree

HEPHAESTUS (Vulcan)

fire & sculpture; anvil & forge

HESTIA (Vesta)

hearth; fireplace

Hades/Pluto

underworld

Demeter/Ceres

agriculture, grain, harvest & fertility

HERMES (Mercury)

travel, hospitality and trade;

Zeus's personal messenger