Ancient Greek Informative Speech

Zeus was the rain god, ruler of the heavens, king of the gods, and the god of law, order, and fate. Unlike God, Zeus had a mother and a father. With approximately seventy wives, Zeus fathered around ninety-two children. The Christian God, having no wife, only fathered his one and only son, Jesus. Zeus and his brothers drew lots for their share of the universe, which concluded with Zeus becoming the supreme ruler. After an uprising with his father, Kronos, Zeus became the ruler of heaven and earth.

Greece influenced many civilizations. The geography of Greece was that it was surrounded by water and high mountains leading to the development of the city-states. Each city-state had its own government and laws. Three major city-states of Ancient Greece were Athens, Sparta, and Troy.

My greek god is Hermes. I will be talking to you about his: History, his Physical Appearances and Symbols, and one important myth that was about him. First I will talk to you about his personality and a few traits. His Roman god name is Mercury, he is one of the Olympic Gods, he is mostly found on Mount Olympus with his family, One over his power (because others are unknown) is Herald’s Wand that was passed through the family heir loom.

Homer, the son of Telemachus and Epikaste, was a Greek poet and court singer born sometime between the 12th and 8th century B.C. There is no certainty of his birth place, but it is believed that he was born somewhere on the Asia Minor coast. The language he uses in his poetry suggests that he may have been native to what is known today as Turkey. His is believed to be the originator of Europe’s first known literature, yet very little is actually known about him and what little information we do have was derived from scrupulously studying his works (softschools.com). Some would debate that he never really existed and that his works were just stories passed down orally through folk tales from generation to generation, but it is apparent that his poetry ended up setting the common values that preserved the Greek’s own ideas about themselves, provided the foundation for the model of heroism, and seemed to portray the Greek gods as always being less clever than their mortal contemporaries (pbs.org).

They even aided the development of our modern day alphabet. Essentially, most of the more famous Ancient Greek writers were philosophers and/or “lovers of wisdom”. For example: Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Empedocles, and a few others. Though, another quite famous writer was Homer. He was known for his epic poetry (poetry portraying the story of heroes) but was more of a poet than a philosopher. Homer’s most known works are the Iliad and The Odyssey, which greatly inspired other poets as time went on. These two epic’s contained history, fiction, and mythology, which are some of the greatly popular genres of today's writing. Also, Ancient Greece gave us the first comedies, tragedies, playwrights, theatre's, and theatrical

In the beginning of time there was nothing but darkness and chaos but then miraculously a being emerged from the empty void called Erebus and night. All was dark, empty and silent until love was born bringing order with it, light was born along with Gaea, the earth from love. Gaea alone gave birth to Uranus, the sky, and he became her husband surrounding her on all sides. Together they created twelve Titans, three cyclops 's and three Hecatonchires (hundred-handed ones). Uranus did not like the Hecatonchires so he hid them in a secret place in the earth which angered Gaea so greatly that she plotted against him. When she asked her children to aid her in taking revenge against Uranus all of them were too afraid to challenge their father except for the youngest Titan named Kronos. Gaea and Kronos planned their revenge and castrated him as he slept. Uranus disappeared after promising Kronos that the Titans would be punished for what he had done. Kronos was then named ruler, married his sister Rhea and locked up the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. When Rhea and Kronos had many children Gaea and Uranus prophesied that he would be overthrown by a child of his. To solve the issue Kronos ate all but one of his children in hopes of changing his fate. The child that was not devoured by his father was hidden by Rhea and was named Zeus. Zeus grew up and made a plan to get his siblings back and defeat Kronos. He decided on getting a potion to make

Gaia and Uranus married and gave birth to the Titans, a race of formidable giants, which included a particularly wily giant named Cronus.

Ancient Greeks made many influential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy, art and architecture, math and science.

Ahh, the Olympics. A nice time to sit down, watch the television, and bond together with friends and family as you all watch the glorious victories rain down on the athletes. We've been enjoying the Olympics for years and years to come...but, have you ever thought about how these games came to be? Believe it or not, but the games that we watch through our television every four years actually dates back to Greeks. Incredible, huh? We've been enjoying these games for centuries, and they've impacted so many things we rely and believe in today, including the government and even religion. Here, let me loom over the details some more...

In the beginning, Gaea was formed out of Chaos, a deep pit in the underworld. She later made Uranus, the god of the sky and mated with him to make the Cyclopes, Giants and finally, the titans. The youngest of the titans, Cronus overthrew his father Uranus and started a family with his sister Rhea. Together, they had Hestia the goddess of the hearth, Demeter the goddess

The Titans were the children of the gods Gaea and Uranus. They include Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Cronus, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Themis, Crius, and Iapetus. They are some of the first gods in greek mythology.

The Greek creation myth, describes how in the beginning, before the world came into being, there was only confused nothingness, called chaos. Chaos, contained the seeds of everything, including the earth, sea, heavens and gods. It took a long time for daylight and nighttime to grow out of Chaos, as did Mother Earth, called Gaia and with her, Eros or true love. Gaia created Uranus, the sky and she also made the mountains and the sea. Although the universe was created, there was no one to enjoy it. Gaia took Uranus as her husband. Together, they produced 12 supernatural beings( 6 sons and 6 daughters), called Titans. These mighty children were the world’s first gods. Gaia and Uranus also had 6 more children, very different from the titans, the Cyclopes and the Monsters. They were very powerful and terrifying creatures that alarmed their father. Uranus decided to imprison all of them, including the Titans, in the deepest depths of the Earth with chains so they couldn’t escape. Gaia felt very sad and angry and decided

The story begins with Gaia, the Earth, the mother to us all. In the midst of the night, Uranus, the sky, rained down on Gaia, and together they created life. "The first children were monsters", and they brought terror (1). As a result, Uranus sent them to Tartarus, the "underworld of blackness" beneath the ever-growing Gaia. Soon, they gave birth again, this time to Cyclopes, whom too were pushed into the underworld. At last, they brought forth life yet again, to giant Titans, who Uranus finally allowed to walk the Earth (1). In the lonely night, Gaia called to her children, those who were "forced back into the womb of night" (1). The most devious of Gaia's children, Cronus, heard her, shrunk and drew Uranus into the sky, and allowed himself

1. Cronus (Saturn): Cronus was the king of the Titans, the children of the heavens and earth, and reigned until his son Zeus dethroned him and took power for himself. According to the Romans after being dethroned, Saturn fled to Italy and brought about the

3. Homer is a poet that lived in the eighth century. He wrote many poems including the epic The Iliad and The Odyssey. Both poems are imporant to history because they symbolize some type of lesson learn. The Iliad was set at the end of the Trojan War which was is a very important war for the Greeks. The assumptions of Odysseus being dead in the Trojan war shows us today that we can not jump to conclusions.