Philippine College of Technology ENG 26: MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE Ma’am Florita C. Saracanlao Name: Raquel T. Damaso Date: August 2, 2016 Topic: Greek Mythology and Clasifficaon of Philippine Mythical Creatures Course&Year: BSED – IV (English) GREEK MYTHOLOGY  Greek Mythology - is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual pracces. - It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to and study the myths in an aempt to shed light on the religious and polical instuons of Ancient Greece and its civilizaon, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself. - Greek mythology is explicitly embodied in a large collecon of narraves, and implicitly in Greek representaonal arts, such as vase-painngs and vove giſts. - Greek myth aempts to explain the origins of the world, and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines and mythological creatures. - These accounts inially were disseminated in an oral-poec tradion; today the Greek myths are known primarily from Greek literature. The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aſtermath. Two poems by Homer's near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial pracces. - Archaeological findings provide a principal source of detail about Greek mythology, with gods and heroes featured prominently in the decoraon of many arfacts. - Greek mythology is known today primarily from Greek literature and representaons on visual media dang from the Geometric period from c. 900–800 BC onward.  Origins of the World and the gods - "Myths of origin" or "creaon myths" represent an aempt to explain the beginnings of the universe in human language. - The most widely accepted version at the me, although a philosophical account of the beginning of things, is reported by Hesiod, in his Theogony. Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the void emerged Gaia (the Earth) and some other primary divine beings: Eros (Love), the Abyss (the Tartarus), and the Erebus. Without male assistance, Gaia 1