Greek Myth XXVIII: Pseudo-Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca Book I, Chapter III – Theogony: Olympian Gods, or Zeus Does a Lot of Begetting

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The author of the Bibliotheca tries to decipher the Olympian family tree.

Discussion Prompts
  1. Who are Aphrodite’s parents? Persephone’s?
  2. Coming off of Prompt #1, how does a shift in the parentage of these goddesses impact the power of them? In the case of Persephone, how does this impact the power of Demeter?
  3. Metis. Discuss.
  4. Which of the myth snippets are you most looking forward to hearing more about? (Yes, several will come up again in later Roman sources.)

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I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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