# Greek & Roman Mythology

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Category: Mythology
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:49.874Z
Tags: mythology, greek, roman

## Summary

No mythological system has been more relentlessly read, painted, sculpted, staged, and rewritten than the Greek. Two and a half millennia of European art assumes you know who Hera is and what Achilles did wrong. Key sections include: Greek & Roman.; Opening The first stories Europe told.; Chapter I From Chaos to Olympus.; Chapter II The Olympians.; Chapter III Hades and Persephone.; Chapter IV Heracles.; Chapter V Theseus and the Minotaur.; Chapter VI Perseus and Medusa.; Chapter VII Jason and the Golden Fleece.; Chapter VIII Orpheus and Eurydice..

## Slide Outline

1. Greek & Roman.
2. Opening The first stories Europe told.
3. Chapter I From Chaos to Olympus.
4. Chapter II The Olympians.
5. Chapter III Hades and Persephone.
6. Chapter IV Heracles.
7. Chapter V Theseus and the Minotaur.
8. Chapter VI Perseus and Medusa.
9. Chapter VII Jason and the Golden Fleece.
10. Chapter VIII Orpheus and Eurydice.
11. Chapter IX The Theban cycle.
12. Chapter X The Trojan war.
13. Chapter XI The nostoi.
14. Chapter XII Hesiod and the five ages.
15. Chapter XIII Ovid as transmitter.
16. Chapter XIV The handbook tradition.
17. Chapter XV Rome inherits.
18. Chapter XVI Aeneas and Roman foundation.
19. Chapter XVII Romulus and the founding.
20. Chapter XVIII Cupid and Psyche.
21. Chapter XIX Eleusis, Dionysos, Mithras.
22. Chapter XX What was here first.
23. Chapter XXI The painters' Ovid.
24. Chapter XXII Myth on the tragic stage.
25. Chapter XXIII The 21st-century reworkings.
26. Chapter XXIV Twenty-five.
27. Chapter XXV Watch & read.
28. Chapter XXVI Why we still read these.
29. Chapter XXVII How to begin.
30. The end of the deck.

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