Unit 05 Olympian Gods.ppt

LOGO Hunan University of Science and Technology Unit 05 Contents 1. Zeus King of Gods and Goddesses Zeus and Hera Zeus and his mortal lovers Zeus’ children 2. Apollo The birth of Apollo The Oracle of Delphi Love affairs Musical contests 3. Dionysus Birth of Dionysus The wandering of Dionysus Dionysia 4. Apollo vs. Dionysus 1). As a god 2). As a man 1). As a god 2). As a man 1). As a god 2). As a man Similarities differences Zeus Zeus As a god 1. The supreme god of the heavens and the earth, omniscient and omnipotent. 2. Weather god: thunder and lightning; rain (life-giver) 3. The patron of hospitality, the keeper of oaths and preserver of order and justice Zeus Examples Be challenged and tested by: Hera Aphrodite Demeter The Fates Punished: Hera, Poseidon, Apollo Lycaon, Tantalus and Atreus the overambitious Asclepius Pandareus, Salmoneus King Haemus and Queen Rhodope, nymph Chelone Zeus As a man 1. a conqueror of women, mortal as well as immortal Metis (Athena) Leto (Apollo and Artemis) Mnemosyne (the 9 Muses) Eurynome (the 3 Graces) Demeter (Persephone) Maia (Hermes) Semele (Dionysus) Io (Epaphus) Europa (Minos, Rhadamanthus, Sarpedon) Danae (Perseus) Leda (Helen) Alcmena (Heracles) Zeus As a man 2. the harassed, vexed and philandering husband a contradictory image of the God of highest law and justice; a being or state of being controlled by libido and beyond social morality; a being of great potential and contradiction. Zeus Comment on his seduction stories conqueror of new land; expansion of territory; increase and spread of people; close relation to life in the region (bull, swan, bird, snake, sunshine); conqueror of the old matriarchal system; spread of civilization Apollo Apollo As a god 1. the god of the sun or the light 2. patron of herds and flocks (life) 3. patron of archery, dance, poetry, music, and medicine (cultural life) 4. god of reason and intellectualis