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Greek Mythology: Gods
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Greek mythology supporters argue against the now dominant 'round revolving earth' theory. Greek mythology clearly suggests that the world is a flat plate surrounded by Okeanos, a gigantic ocean. The sky is an artificial roof made by Uranus. Stars are purely decorative, usually heroes or animals turned into stars by the gods. The sun is the god Helios, who rides his fiery chariot across the sky every day. In the winter he does not have the energy to ride as long as he does in the summer.
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Greek mythology ... told how divinities interacted with heroes, a category of mortals who, though dead, were believed to retain power to influence the lives of the living. In myths heroes represented a kind of bridge between gods and mortals. Heroes such as Achilles, Perseus, and Aeneas were the products of a union between a deity and a mortal. The fact that the gods often intervened to help heroes—for example, during combat—indicated not the heroes’ weakness but their special importance. Yet heroes were not the equals of the gods.
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo was the god of the sun, music, poetry, prophecy, agriculture, and pastoral life, and leader of the Muses. He was the twin child of Zeus and Leto. Ancient statues show Apollo as the embodiment of the Greek ideal of male beauty. Apollo epitomized the transition between adolescence and manhood in Greek male society.
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The world of Greek mythology is quite complex. It is full of monsters, wars, intrigue, and meddling gods. And there are heroes to help overcome these problems. Men and women were much greater in those days, of course, though the Greeks did not see any wide gulf between their history and their mythology (see, for example, The Iliad and The Odyssey). They saw themselves as the direct descendents of the mythological heroes and their culture. All in all it makes for some wonderful stories that are still enjoyed in the present day.
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A webquest on Greek mythology for grades 9-12. "During the semester you have read a number of myths explaining such things as: Creation, Titans, Major gods and goddesses, creation of man, lovers, the Underworld, heroes and their perilous journeys, flowers, Greek attributes, monsters, and nature. Though these myths are some of the most popular in explaining "first causes" some of the characters within them are involved in many other myths as well. What you are to do through this Web Quest is to further your interest of a specific god, mortal, monster, etc. by researching other myths that involve some of their other exploits." Very Good
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In Greek mythology Oneiros was one form of the god of dreams (the other being Morpheus). Oneiros was properly a personification of dreams, whether idle or deceptive or really prophetic. Dreams of the former class were supposed to issue from the ivory gates, those of the latter class from the horn gate, of the palace where they were kept, beside the Western Oceanus. He was called a child of Night, sometimes a child of Sleep, and was directly under the control of the superior order of gods, who, as they pleased, dispatched deceptive or prophetic dreams to men.
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