Greek Culture Quest

By: Abby Haywood

Ancient Greek art, architecture, and

writing• Greek art was very influential masterpieces.• Greece had many sculptures and monuments.• Greek architecture was based around religion

and had many large and beautiful temples• Greek writing used pronunciation, numbers, and

the alphabet to write letters, fables, and stories during the time of Ancient Greece.

Map of Ancient Greece

Major Greek Gods

• Aphrodite: goddess of love, romance, and beauty, her son was Eros, god of love

• Apollo: beautiful god of the sun, light, medicine, and music

• Ares: dark god of war• Artemis: independent goddess of the hunt, the forest,

wildlife, and the moon, sister to Apollo• Athena: daughter of Zeus, goddess of wisdom, war, and

crafts• Demeter: goddess of agriculture and mother of

Persephone

Apollo

Artemis

Major Greek Gods• Hephaestus: lame god of fire and the forge• Hera: wife of Zeus, protector of marriage, familiar with

magic• Hermes: the speedy messenger of the gods• Hestia: calm goddess of the home and symbolized by

the hearth which holds the continually burning of flame• Poseidon: god of the sea, horses, and of earthquakes• Zeus: supreme lord of gods, god of the sky, symbolized

by the thunderbolt

Poseidon Zeus

Trojan War• Legendary conflict between the early Greeks

and the people of Troy in western Anatolia

• Dated later to the 12th or 13th century BC

• The war lasted 10 years

• It ended when the Greeks pretended to withdraw leaving behind them a large wooden horse with warriors inside.

• When the Trojans brought the horse into their city, the hidden Greeks opened the gates who then attacked Troy, killed all its men, and carried off its women.

Famous Heroes• Hercules: he grew up to become the hero who

beat the odds time and again, performed amazing, often helpful tasks, and yet was full human

• Achilles: he was the best warrior in the Trojan war, he was dipped in the Styx River and was then unbeatable except his ankle where he wasn’t dipped

• Theseus: he was the hero of Athens, he saved the people of Athens from having to send off their children as sacrifices

• Odysseus: he came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, and he also survived 10 years of war and then 10 years at sea then he came home, only few Greeks did that

HerculesOdysseus

Famous Monsters• Cyclops: one-eyed giants, that considered humans food• Cerberus: a three headed, flesh-eating hound that was

so fierce that even the gods fear him, he was a watchdog in the land of the dead

• Sphinx: she had the head and chest of a women, bird wings, and a dog’s body, she asked people who walked by to solve a riddle, if they failed she would have destroyed or devoured them

• Medusa: the once beautiful and loved women was turned into a snake-headed monster, and if you took on glance at her you would have turned into stone.

Cerberus

Sources• 12 Major Gods of Ancient Greece, Westport,

Website, January 2, 2012.• Ancient Greece, University Quest, 2008,

Website, January 2, 2012• Trojan War- History, A & E Television Networks,

2011, Website, January 2, 2012• Gill, N.S, Top 10 Heroes of Greek Land, The

New York Times Company, 2012, Website, January 2, 2012

• Gill, N.S, Mythical Monsters- Monsters From Greek Mythology, The New York Times Company, 2012, Website, January 2, 2012