02.25 - Greece/Rome Creation Story

At the beginning of class today, everyone had time to finish their creation story note sheet for the Greek and Roman creation story. We then came together as a large group to discuss this story. From here, we ended up breaking into groups of three to look at mapping the people and action of the story with a focus on looking not just at the names of the gods involved, but the powers that they represent.

Each group mapped out the events covered in the creation story taking note of what each god represented. We then looked at and discussed these maps to see what message Greeks and Romans were communicating about powerful forces in life.

These maps showed a progression from broad, earthly forces (Chaos, earth, the sky) to more specific, human forces (foresight, love, wisdom). The conflict between the forces showed that the newer, more human-like gods can use their powers of civilization to defeat the old gods and tame the enemies of the old gods (the cyclops, the hundred-handed giants).

In the remaining time in class, we began reading the Babylonian creation story.

Handouts:
Babylonian creation story (also found on pg. 148-158 in the World Mythology text)
Creation story note sheet
Creation story note sheet instructions


Homework:

Finish reading the Babylonian creation story.
Be prepared to complete the creation story note sheet for this story in class tomorrow.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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