Noah's Three Sons

Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Mizraim

A decendant of Ham, that settled in northern Africa and became known as the Egyptians

Phoenicians

Greece

A peninsula in the the southern part of Europe.  Japheth's son Javan and his descendants settled here.

Egyptians and Phoenicians

Pelasgians

A people group from Babel already dwelling in Greece when Japheth's son arrived.

Inachus

First Egyptian who settled in Greece and taught the inhabitants there how to cook their meat and build comfortable homes by piling up stones.

Cyclops

Greek term for their giants.  Cyclops, which means "round-eyed," and their called their giant stone walls constructed without mortar Cyclopean walls.

Javan

Son of Japheth.  His family was part of the rebellion at Babel.  The legends his family told of themselves became confused as they forgot their true history and rejected the true God in exchange for created gods modeled after their ancestors.  They worship these people as heroes.

Legend of Great Flood

Greek legend resembling the true historical story of Noah and his family.  King Duecalion, a descendant of the gods, and his wife Pyrrha were the only survivors.

Elements of the Universe

In Greek mythology, the Creator is absent and instead the Greeks personify these.

Titans

Greek legend that says they were a race of giants birthed from the earth, Gaia, and the sky, Uranus.

Pandora

This legend includes the first sin and the subsequent evil entering the world as well as hope, resembling Eve's sin in the garden and the promised Redeemer.

Athena

Argos

First real city in Greece founded by Inachus the Egyptian.  This city was destroyed by and earthquake and flood.

Deluge of Ogyges

Ogyges was king during the earthquake and flood. 

Athens

This city was founded by Cecrops an Egyptian prince.  He named it Athens to please Athena whom the people worshipped.

Cadmus

A Phoenician that brought the Phoenician alphabet to Greece, teaching the people how to write.

Thebes

A former Phoenician colony established by Cadmus.

Perseus

First of the great heros embellished in Greek mythology.  He built the town of Mycenae in 1313 B.C.

Deucalion

First king of Thessaly, a region in northern Greece.

Amphictyon

Eldest son of Deucalion.  King of Thessaly.  Established the Amphictyonic Council.

Amphictyon Council

A meeting held once a year at Thermopylae or the temple at Delphi to discuss important matters.

Thermopylae

This word means "Hot Gateway," and is a place in Thessaly where the mountains approach the sea. leaving a narrow pass in which are hot springs.

Hellen

Deucalion's second son.  He went southward and settled a region of Greece that became known as Hellas in his honor.

Xuthus the Exile

Hellen's son.  Became king of Athens and bore two sons, Ion and Achaeus.

Ion and Achaeus

Led followers along the Isthmus of Corinth into the peninsula where they established the states of Achaia and Ionia.

King Minos

Governed the island of Crete.  He is remembered for his wisdom and just laws.

Peloponnesus

The peninsula of Greece that is named after Pelops, a Phrygian who took possession and mastered all of the peninsula except Argolis.

Daedalus

Jason and the Argonauts

The first distant commercial journey undertaken by the Greek is remembered in this legend.   They search for the Golden Fleece.