A presentation on the story about how the world and mankind were created in Greek Mythology

2. A formless confusion and
shapeless nothingness

3. Goddess of Night
Personification of darkness
where death dwells

4. With its birth, order and
beauty began to banish
blind confusion
Born from Night and Darkness

5. Born from Eros (Love)

6. The solid ground
The blue vault on high

7. Offsprings of Mother Earth and Father Heaven
The first creatures who had the
appearance of life
Brontes, Arges, Steropes

8. Offsprings of Mother Earth and Father Heaven
The first creatures who had the
appearance of life
Briareus, Cottus, Gyges

9. Offsprings of Mother Earth and Father Heaven
The first creatures who had the
appearance of life
Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus,
Oceanus, Kronos, Mnemosyne,
Phoebe, Rhea, Thetys, Themis,
Thea

10. The youngest and strongest Titan
His wife is his sister, Rhea
Titan Ruler of the Universe
Dethroned his father Uranus
Swallowed his children, the Olympians
The Giants, the fourth race of monsters, and the Erinyes
sprang up from the blood of Uranus.

11. The Supreme Leader, Lord of the Sky
His wife is his sister, Hera
The sixth child of Cronus and Rhea
The only child who was not swallowed by Cronus
Released his siblings from Cronus

12. Led by Zeus, the Olympians defeated the Titans

14. The earth was believed to be a round disk, divided into two
equal parts by the Sea.

15. Mythical people living in a place where sun never shines.
Their land is the home of the God of Sleep, Somnus.
Hypnos
—the embodiment of Sleep
—his mother is Nyx, Goddess of Night and his father Erebus,
God of Darkness.
Thanatos
—personification of Death

16. Lived in a northern paradise of perpetual sunshine beyon
the reaches of the God of the North Wind.
Hyperborea was a theocrocy ruled by the three priests of
the God Apollon.
These gigantic kings, known as the Boreades, were son of Borea
(North Wind).

17. In roman called Aithopia. The gods held them in such favor
they would sit at joyful banquets with them in their halls.
Memnon
—God of Ethiopians
—son of Tithonus and Eos (Dawn)

18. 2. Silver Race
3. Brass Race
4. Race of godlike heroes
5. Iron race
Five Ages

19. 1. GOLDEN RACE
Although mortals, they lived like gods without sorrow of
heart, far from toil and pain.
2. SILVER RACE
They were inferior to the first. They had so little intelligence
that they couldn't keep from injuring each other.
3. BRASS RACE
They were terrible men, immensely strong and such lovers of war
and violence that they were destroyed by their own hands.

20. 4. RACE OF GODLIKE HEROES
They fought glorious wars and went on great adventures.
They departed to the isles of the blessed and lived in bliss.
5. IRON RACE
They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil. Sons
are always inferior to their fathers.

21. Sons of Titan Iapetus and Clymene
Titan God of Forethought and Fire
Titan God of Afterthought
Given a task by Zeus to create living things
in the world.

22. —means 'the gift of all'
—the first woman ever created
—Zeus created a great evil for men.

23. —Hesoid's "pithos" refers to a large
storage jar
—Erasmus translated pithos into the
latin word "pyxis" which means box

24. Zeus' servants, Force and Violence
seized and took Prometheus to Mount
Caucasus where he was bound and
tortured.

25. All over the earth men grew so wicked
that finally Zeus determined to destroy
them through sending flood.

26. They were the first king and queen of the northern
reaches of Greece— Opountian Lokris, Malis, Phthiotis,
and Thessalia.
DEUCALION was the son of Prometheus
PYRRHA was the daughter of Pandora and Epimetheus
Mount Parnassus is the home of the Muses; home of
music, poetry, and learning.

27. DESCENDANTS OF
Sons and Daughters:
Hellen— the eponymous king of the Hellenes (the Greeks)
The three maidens: Pandora, Protogeneia, Thyia
Great Grandsons:
Sisyphos Diktys Endymion
Salmoneus Polydektes
Athamas Ion