2. Poseidon (Neptune)
• Lord and the Ruler of
The Sea, the Friendly
Sea and Underground
Rivers
• Zeus’ brother and
second to him
eminence
• He was called the
Earth-shaker
3. • always shown carrying his
Trident
• he had some connection
with bulls and horses
• his wife was Amphitrite
(a granddaughter of the
Titan , Ocean)
• considered one of the
most bad-tempered,
moody and greedy
Olympian gods.
5. Ocean
• Lord of the River Ocean
• He was represented as a powerful but kind old man
or having the upper body of a man with a long beard
and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab
or lobster), and the lower torso of a sea serpent
• He was the personification of the mythical ever-
flowing stream, which, encircled the world, and from
which sprang all the rivers and streams that watered
the earth
He separated the earth and mortals from Hades, the
world of the dead
7. Nereus
• The Old man of the Sea
• God of the sea’s bounty of fish
• Son of Pontus and Gaea
• His wife is Doris
• Had fifty lovely daughters, the nymphs of the
sea called Nereids
8. Pontus
• Means Deep Sea
• Son of Earth and the father of Nereus
Pontus the Sea, Greco-Roman
mosaic, Bardo Museum
Depiction of Pontos at the
Constanţa Museum of National
History
9. Triton
• Trumpeter of the Sea
• Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite
• Messenger god of the sea
Proteus
• Protector of the seas, river and other bodies
of water
• Power of foretelling the future and changing
shape at his will
• Can be change into human, a snake,a horse or
a sea creature
10. Naiads Nymphs
• Pegaiai- nymphs of springs
• Krenalai- naiads of fountains
• Potameides- presided over rivers and streams
• Limnades and Limnatides- Inhhabited lakes
• Heleinomai- nymphs of marshes and wetlands
15. Get a male partner
You have to make the coin travel inside the
clothes of your male partner from top to
bottom. Then answer this question by getting
the correct answer inside the envelope and
post it on the board:
Answer: Persephone
Who is the daughter of Demeter and was
abducted by Hades?; She Became the
Queen of the Underworld
16.
17. Hades/Pluto
• The Ruler of the Underworld
• He had Queen name Persephone
• According to Iliad, Hades’ dominion lies
between secret places of the earth. According
to the Odyssey, one must cross Ocean to get
there.
• Hades was depicted as stern and unyielding,
unmoved by prayer and sacrifice.
• Hades had a cap or helmet that made its
wearer invisible.
21. Homer
• Vague, shadowy and inhabited by shadows
• Ghost’s existence
• Like a miserable dream
• Place where wicked are punished and good
rewarded
22. Virgil
• The only poet who gives clearly the geography
of the underworld
• Acheron- river of woe
• Cocytus- river of lamentation
• Charon- Ferries the soul to the farther bank
23. • Cerberus- three-headed, dragon-tailed dog
who permits the spirit to enter
• On his arrival, each one is brought before
three Judges (Rhadamantus, Minos, Aeacus)
who pass sentence and send the wicked to
everlasting torment and the good to Elysian
Fields
24. • The Erinyes- they punish the evil doers
• They are inexorable, but just
• They are represented as three:
• Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto
• Sleep and Death- his brothers and dwelt in
Underworld
• Dreams are ascended from there to men. They
passed through two gates, one horn which true
dreams went, one of ivory for false dreams
