1. GREEK MYTHOLOGY

2. Greek Myths are the most fascinating myths of the ancient world. The myths were actually efforts of the people to explain the creation of the world. They tried to explain the nature, weather conditions. At first, myths were told orally and they were usually narrated in the form of songs. Only in the 5th century BC, people began to write the myths. These myths constituted the main theme of the ancient plays by famous play writers, like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

3. True or False 1. The ancient people created myths for entertainment. 2. They wrote the myths first and then told the stories. 3. Sophocles didn’t write anything about mythology.

4. Pandora's Box Pandora's Box According to greek mythology Pandora was the first woman on earth and was created by the God Zeus in an act of revenge against man. He instructed Hephaestus to create a beautiful woman who the Gods endowed with every charm (together with curiosity and deceit) and sent her to earth as a present for Epimetheus, who fell in love with her and they married. As a wedding gift Zeus sent Pandora a beautiful box which he told her never to open and gave the key for the box to Epimetheus. Over time Pandora became very curious about the contents of the box and several times begged Epimetheus to let her open it, but each time he said 'No'. Finally one day when Epimetheus was asleep Pandora stole the key and opened the box. As she lifted the lid to take a peek inside terrible things flew out of the box, every kind of disaster man had never know before: disease, despair, malice, greed, hatred, violence, cruelty and war. Unable to catch all these things before they flew away Pandora slammed down the lid and turned the key, keeping only the spirit of hope inside which Zeus had included to help keep people going when the nasty things got them down. Downloaded from http://www.eslteachersboard.com/ on Dec. 23, 2009.http://www.eslteachersboard.com/

5. Pandora’s box 1. Write 5 questions about the story. Who, What, Where, How, Did… 1. With a partner create a new box with a new name and contents. These are things you think that the world needs, but you can only put 3 things in the box.