Titans

For the last couple of weeks in Classics, we have been looking at the Titans in Greek mythology. The titans are the children of the Primordials Gaea and Oranus and Kronos and Rhea are the parents of the Olympains.

Here is the slide I made about Hyperion.

We had to write a paragraph comaring a greek story to a story from another culture. I compeared the Greek story of Rhea giving her husband a rock instead of their son to eat and the Egyptain story of Isis killing the king of gods to make way for her son.

In some cultures, a women’s power comes from her role as mother to her children as shown in their stories. In Greek mythology Rhea shows her power by tricking her husband Kronos into eating a rock, saving her youngest child Zeus. Her love for her children motivating her to save her youngest help save the rest of her children who had been eaten by Kronos. Similarly, in Aceint Egyptian stories Isis shows her power by killing the king, and the god of the sun Ra. Ra’s throne is then pasted to her son Horus. These two stories show the power that mothers have in their culture through their children.