THE MOVIE CLASH OF THE TITANS IS BASED ON THE STORY OF PERSEUS. PERSEUS WAS A MYTHICAL GREEK HERO WHO LIVED IN ANCIENT GREECE. THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF ARGOS IN A TIME BEFORE THE FIRST HISTORIANS. THE STORY IS A MYTH, WHICH MEANS THAT ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE AKERNEL OF TRUTH TO THE STORY, MUCH OF IT IS PROBABLY INVENTED. THIS IS BECAUSE THE STORY WAS TRANSMITTED ORALLY RATHER THAN BY PEN AND PAPER. BECAUSE OF THIS, THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OR "TELLINGS" OF THE STORY. THE HERO IS PERSEUS, THE SON OF DANAE AND HEIR TO ACRISIUS, THE KING OF ARGOS. THREE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS PERSEUS MEETS IN HIS STORY ARE ATHENA, ANDEOMEDA, AND MEDUSA. ATHENA IS THE GREEK GODDESS OF WISDOM AND STRATEGY. SHE OFTEN COMES TO THE AID OF GREEK HEROES IN THEIR TIMES OF NEED- ANDEOMEDAIS THE DALGHTER OF CASSIOPEIA, THE QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA. BECAUSE OF HER MOTHER'S INDISCRETION SHE WAS FORCED TO BECOME A SACRIFICE FOR THE SEA MONSTER KRAKEN- MEDUSA IS A WICKED CREATURE OF THE GREEK UNDERWORLD WHOM PERSEUS MUST BATTLE TO WIN HIS RIGHT TO HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM- THE BOX RAN ASHORE ON THE ISLAND OF SERIPHOS, WHERE THE KING POLYDECTES RAISED THE BOY TO MANHOOD. AFTER SOME TIME, THE KING FELL IN LOVE WITH DANAE PERSEUS WAS IN REALITY THE SON OF JUPITER. KING ACRISIUS HAD BEEN WARNED BY SIGNS THAT ANY CHILD DANAE GAVE HIM WOULD ONE DAY OVER-POWER HIM. BECAUSE OF THIS, HE LOCKED DANAE IN A BRONZE ROOM. ONE NIGHT, JUPITER CAME TO HER IN THE FORM OF A GOLDEN MIST AND BORE PERSEUS FROM HER. OVERCOME WITH FEAR, ACRISIUS BUILT A WOODEN BOX AND CAST PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER INTO THE SEA.ON THE ISLAND OF SERIPHOS AND KING NAMED POLYDECTES TOOK PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER IN- AFTER A FEW YEARS THE KING FELL FOR PERSEUS! MOTHER. ONE NIGHT, THE KING HELD A HUGE PARTY FOR ALL OF HIS RICH FRIENDS AND ASKED THAT EVERYONE BRING A PRESENT. WHEN PERSEUS REALIZED HE COULD NOT BRING A PRESENT, HE PROMISED THE KING WHATEVER HE WANTED. THE KING DEMANDED THE HEAD OF MEDUSA BECAUSE HE WAS HOPING PERSEUS WOULD JUST GO OFF AND DIE SO THAT HE COULD DATE HIS MOTHER. TO FULFILL HIS QUEST PERSEUS WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE HIS MOTHER AND HOME TO TRAVEL TO THE UNDERWORLD AWAY FROM ALL HUMANKIND. THIS IS THE WAY MANY GREEK HERO MYTHS START- e | sts a TO AID HIM ON HIS QUEST THE GOD HERMES GAVE HIM A CURVED SWORD MADE OUT OF A MATERIAL CALLED ADAMANTINE (A MATERIAL WHICH IS HARDER THAN DIAMOND AND WHOSE. NAME MEANS UNTAMABLE) AND HIS WINGED SANDALS CALLED TALARIA- ATHENA GAVE HIM A SPECIAL MIRROR SHIELD WITH WHICH HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THE REFLECTION OF MEDUSA AND NOT BE TURNED TO STONE- SHE ALSO GAVE HIM A HELMET OF INVISIBILITY. HE ALSO RECIEVED A SPECIAL SACK IN WHICH HE COULD STORE THE HEAD OF MEDUSA. SOME STORIES SAY HER BLOOD WAS MADE OF POWERFUL ACID, BUT THE ACID COULD NOT BURN THROUGH THIS BAG. "DREADFUL" IN GREEK. THEIR GAZE WAS ABLE TO TURN LIVING CREATURES INTO STONE- BECAUSE OF THIS PICTURES AND IMAGES OF GORGONS WERE USED AS APOTROPAIC AS (FROM THE GREEK "APO- AWAY" AND "TREPEIN- TO TURN") IMAGES TO WARD OFF EVIL SPIRITS AND ROBBERS. MEDUSA HAD TWO SISTERS, STHENO AND EURYALE- SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE THREE GORGA WHO WAS MORTAL. THE PICTURE IN THE MIDDLE IS THE STYLE IN WHICH SHE WAS DEPICTED IN EARLY TIMES-TO FIND MEDUSA, PERSEUS TRAVELED TO THE ISLANDS OF THE HESPERIDAE WHERE HE CONSULTS THE GRAEAE WHOSE NAME MEANS "THE GRAY ONES". THEY WERE THREE SISTERS WHO HAD ONLY ONE. EYE AND ONE TOOTH BETWEEN THEM. PERSEUS SNATCHED AWAY THEIR ONLY EYEBALL AND DEMANDED TO KNOW THE LAIR OF MEDUSA. THEY TOLD HIM TO FIND HER BEYOND THE RIVER STYX. AFTER HE GOT THE ANSWER HE THREW THE EYEBALL INTO A LAKE AND ALL THE THREE SISTERS HAD LEFT WAS ONE TOOTH. WHEN PERSEUS CAME UPON MEDUSA HE USED THE MIRROR SHIELD TO SEE MEDUSA WITHOUT BEING TURNED TO STONE. HE OVERCAME HER AND DECAPITATED HER. FROM THE BLOOD OF HER CORPSE SPRUNG THE WINGED HORSE PEGASUS AND CHYSAOR, A YOUNG MAN IN GOLDEN ARMOR- THE CRY OF MEDUSA AWOKE HER SISTER'S STHENO AND EURYALE- PERSEUS NARROWLY ESCAPED FROM THE UNDERWORLD BY RIDING AWAY ON PEGASUS. PERSEUS FLEW FAR AND AWAY AND BY THE FALL OF NIGHT HE REACHED THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE WORLD WHERE THE SUN GOES DOWN. THERE HE CAME UPON ATLAS, A GIANT TITAN WHO HAD BEEN FORCED BY THE GODS TO BEAR THE HEAVENS ON HIS SHOULDERS. PERSEUS TOOK THE HEAD OF MEDUSA OUT OF THE SACK AND SHOWED IT TO ATLAS- ATLAS INSTANTLY TURNED FROM A GIGANTIC TITAN TO A MOUNTAIN THAT HELD UP THE SKY- ON THE WAY HOME, HE ENCOUNTERED A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN NAMED ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO SOME ROCKS. HE LEARNED FROM HER THAT HER MOTHER, CASSIOPEIA, HAD OFFENDED. POSEIDON BY STATING THAT HER DAUGHTER'S BEALITY WAS GREATER THAN THE THETIS WHO ATTENDED POSEIDON. TO PUNISH HER, POSEIDON HAD SENT A FLOOD AND A SEA SERPENT TO HARASS THE PEOPLE OF HER COUNTRY. AN ORACLE HAD TOLD ANDROMEDA'S FATHER, KING CEPHUS, TO SACRIFICE HIS ANDROMEDA TO THE SERPENT TO APPEASE POSEIDON. ANDROMEDA BEGGED PERSEUS TO SAVE HER- PERSEUS AGREED TO HELP HER, BLT FIRST HE WANTED KING CEPHUS TO GIVE HIM ANDROMEDA’S HAND IN MARRIAGE. CEPHUS AGREED- |eWHEN THE SEA SERPENT CAME FOR ANDROMEDA, PERSEUS JUMPED ON TOP OF IT AND BATTLED IT TO THE DEATH- PERSEUS WAS VICTORIOUS AND HE THEN FREED ANDROMEDA. HE WENT TO HER FATHER TO CLAIM HER IN MARRIAGE, BUT CEPHUS HAD FAILED TO MENTION THAT ANDROMEDA HAD ALREADY BEEN PROMISED TO PHINEUS. A MAN NAMED PHINEUS, WITH A SMALL ARMY, CAME TO INTERRUPT PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA’S WEDDING. PERSEUS HANDLED THIS BY PULLING MEDUSA’S HEAD OUT OF THE BAG AND TURNED PHINEUS AND HIS ARMY ALL TO STONE- IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE TITANS WERE A RACE OF POWERFUL GOD, DESCENDANTS OF GAIA AND URANUS, WHO RULED DURING THE GOLDEN AGE. THE TITANS WERE CALLED THE TWELVE TITANS. THEIR RULE AS ELDER GODS WAS OVERTHROWN BY A RACE OF YOUNGER GODS, THE OLYMPIANS, IN THE TITANOMACHY ("BATTLE WITH THE TITANS"). THE LEADER OF THE TITANS WAS CRONUS, WHO CARRIED A SICKLE- FROM THE GOD'S NAME WE GET THE WORD FOR TIME "CHRONOS" AND THE NEW YEAR CHARACTER OLD FATHER TIME- ClasswonK ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON A | | ANSWER THE FOLLOMINE QUESTIONS PIECE OF NOTEBOOK PAPER. THIS WILL BE COLLECTED AT THE END OF CLASS. 1. WHO IS PERSEUS! FATHER? 2. HOW IS THIS STORY DIFFERENT FROM A BOOK? 3. HOW OLD IS THE STORY? WHAT IS ANOTHER STORY THAN IS AS OLD? 4. HOW MANY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS DOES THE ART FOR THIS COMIC COME FROM? 5. WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT PERSEUS FACES? WHAT AID DOES HE GET? 6. WHO ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS? 7- IF YOU COULD FLY AND TURN PEOPLE TO STONE, WHAT WOULD YOU DOF ON A SHEET OF PAPER, THIS WiLl BE COLLECTED BEFORE THE VIDEO NEXT CLASS- 1. IF YOU CONTROL THE KRAKEN, WHAT CITIES WOULD YOU FEED IT AND WHY? 2. WHAT ARE TWO OTHER STORIES YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT BUT NOT READ? 3- WHAT IS A PREPOSITION AND HOW MANY PREPOSITIONS DO YOU KNOW?