greek gods and goddesses
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Greek Gods and Goddesses
Abby
Molly
Kyle
Some Greek
Gods and Goddesses
are
Ares • God of war
Apollo • Sun, music, writing, prophecy and medicine
Athena• Goddess of wisdom, and battle strategies
Poseidon• God of the Sea
Zues
• God of lighting and he was the king god
Hera• Goddess of Marriage (Queen of Gods)
Aphrodite
• Goddess of love and beauty
The minotaur
Is a beast
That was a bull
From the waist up
And human from the waist
DOWN!
It guards
The opening
to the
Labyrinth!
And…
Ate children and
Families that were
Taken from King
MINOS!
4 heroes were
Perseus who
Slayed Medusa
and
Hercules who
Completed the 12 labors
Alexandra the Great who
Conquered Egypt and
Persia
The gods and goddesses were
Born with special powers
And became gods and Goddesses
Athena is the Goddess
Of wisdom
The Greek’s had
Lots of Gods and Goddess’s
Because they
Believed that
The God’s controlled everything
And they believed
That each God and Goddess
Controlled
1 thing
Aurora the Goddess of
DAWN
Is a car model now
And
Venus is a Goddess
Of love
And Venus is a beauty
Product now
One more is
Apollo the God of
Music and writing
And Apollo Theater is
A theater in New York
Morpheus
• Greek god of sleep
• Morphine is a drug
Poseidon
• God of the sea
• Brand of seafood
Nike
Winged Goddess of victory
Brand of athletic shoes
Our myth is
Medusa
Peruses was forced
To kill Medusa and
Bring her head
Back as a request from
A king after
Failing to bring
A gift to the king’s wedding
IN order to help him
Athena gave him a
Polished shield and Hermes
Gave him a sword and a pair of
Winged shoes
Perseus killed Medusa in
Her sleep
And out of her neck
Sprung Pegasus!
In 1200 BC
Troy was destroyed
When they lost
The Trojan war
The first
development
Of the Greek alphabet
Happened…
In 850 BC
The first Olympics
Were held in Greece
In the year 776 BC
The first Greek coin
Was used as a currency
In 600 BC
And in
333 BC
Alexander the Great
DIED!
This is how
Greece came to be!
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