Metis Prophecy In Ancient Greece

A prophecy came forward that Metis’ first child would be a girl and her second child would be a boy that would overthrow Zeus and take his throne from him, just as Zeus had done to his father. Zeus took this very seriously and believed it was to come true. When he next saw Metis he acted as if nothing was wrong, when she let her guard down he opened up his mouth and swallowed her whole along with her unborn child. After a long while Zeus began to have head pains which became unbearable this made him scream out so loud that it was heard throughout the earth. This was so loud that the other Gods came to see what had happened, Hermes said that he needed to take a wedge and split open Zeus's skull. When they did this out came Athena dressed fully …show more content…
Greeks were very religious people and worshiped many Gods which they believed were in human form yet had superhuman strength and never aged. Iliad and Odyssey are the earliest known examples of Greek culture, literature and encounters with various Gods and Goddesses. Many people worshiped more than one god, but occasionally only one which was usually Zeus. Gods and Goddesses were either portrayed by themselves or in mythological situations when they had interactions with humans. Men were usually working and were at home very little. They were either involved in politics, in the fields, working or supervising crops, sailing, hunting. In their spare time they would engage in drinking parties, wrestling, horseback riding and the Olympic Games. Women and daughters were not allowed to attend parties with the men. Women had very little freedom outside of their home, they could attend some religious festivities, funerals, weddings and could briefly visit with their female friends. Their duties were to look over the home and bear the children, in the house the women were in charge. Many women did not actually have to clean because many Greek households had slaves. Women were not allowed to watch the Olympic games because the people participating did not wear clothing. Children were educated to become adults, education varied from place to place they taught what they thought was appropriate. For the most part boys stayed at home, helped in the fields, fished and sailed. At the age of six or seven they started schooling, in Sparta it was mostly about military training and in Athens it was gaged more towards arts and