European Humanities 
Mr. Spragins 
Fall 2018

Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology

Directions: In a two to three minute presentation either:

• summarize the information on your topic and identify the key idea
• or tell the story of your myth in an imaginative way.
• Google Slide Guidelines (The Siliciano Rules)

Group One: 

Pre-History: 

• The Big Bang 
• Human Evolution
• Paleolithic Art 

Mesopotamia: 

• The Agricultural Revolution
• Marduk and Tiamet
• Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld
• Gilgamesh's Search for Immortality
• Hammurabi's Code

Egypt:

• The Pyramids
• Isis and Osiris

Group Two: 

Crete: 

• The Snake Goddess
• The Bull from the Sea
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Theseus and the Minotaur

Mycenae: 

• The Overthrow of Cronos
• The House of Atreus
• The Judgment of Paris
• The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
• The Murder of Agamemnon
• Orestes and the Furies

Group Three: 

Greece: 

• The Rape of Persephone
• Athena
• Dionysus