PLEASE HELP! GREEK MYTHOLOGY!
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In the beginning there was only Chaos. Chaos was a dark and silent existence. After Chaos Gaea the earth came into existence. Gaea was to become the immortal loving mother of the gods and humanity.

Gaea had a son who was named Uranus. Uranus, who was heaven, covered the entire world with his form. Gaea and Uranus had many children bringing forth more immortal gods. These gods were the Titans, the Cyclops, and the hundred hands.

Uranus feared his children as he believed that one day they would attempt to take his throne. Every time Gaea would have a child Uranus would take it and bury it in the depths of Gaea, the earth.

Gaea wept for her children and where they had been placed. Gaea decided that she had to revenge the cruelty that Uranus had perpetrated on their children. One night as Uranus was sleeping low upon Gaea, Gaea took her son Cronos out from her depths. Gaea gave Cronus a sickle and told Cronus to wound his father with it.

The great Titan Cronus arose without fear, attacking Uranus. Cronus wounded him with the sickle, and Uranus poured out great amounts of blood from his wound. The god became so weakened that he rose high above the earth, never to reach low onto Gaea (the earth), again. As the blood of Uranus fell onto the earth and mixed with the soil it brought forth the Giants, the Nymphs, and the Nereids.

The god Cronus then became ruler and god of the entire world. Eventually, his own children, led by Zeus rebelled against him and won, imprisoning all the Titans. Following their final victory, Zeus was given the sky and the air and was recognized as overlord, Poseidon was given the sea, and Hades was given the Underworld, the realm of the dead. Each of the other gods was allotted powers according to their personalities.

The Titans Prometheus and Epimetheus were allowed to stay free because they had not fought with their fellow Titans. They were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure. Prometheus had given Epimetheus the task of giving the creatures of the earth their various qualities, such as swiftness, cunning, strength, fur, and wings. Unfortunately, by the time he got to man, he had given all the good qualities out and there were none left for man. So Prometheus decided to make man stand upright as the gods did and to give him fire. Zeus was angry that man again had fire. He decided to punish both man and Prometheus.


To punish man, Zeus had Hephaestus create a beautiful woman named Pandora. The gods gave her many gifts of wealth and a deceptive heart and a lying tongue. A final gift was a jar which Pandora was forbidden to open. Eventually, Pandora's curiosity about the jar she was forbidden to open became too much for her. She opened the jar and out flew all manner of evils, sorrows, plagues, and misfortunes. However, the bottom of the jar held one good thing - hope.


Questions (Use complete sentences and provide evidence from the text to prove your answers!)

1. What do you notice about this creation myth that makes it stand out from the others we have read throughout the year?

2. Who is really the father of Greek society--Chaos or Zeus? (Think very carefully about your answer before writing it down.) Make sure you justify the answer you chose with evidence--quoted or paraphrased-=-from the text.)

3. Which of the characters discussed in the text is a god versus a demi-god? What evidence from the reading gives you the answer.

4. How is it that Pandora's jar can hold both evils and hope?