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CHAPTER TWO Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon Ken Dowden The Nature of Gods Amongst the many creations of Greek culture, the Olym ...
Indeed, in a single place you might worship a variety of Zeuses, distinguished by their epithets– so Zeus ‘‘Meilichios,’’ Zeus t ...
his world order and then enter the temple to see what came to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the huge enthron ...
or not the cult at Olympia was where the idea of twelve gods took fixed form, it was certainly in at the beginning. This pairing ...
very close to Akkadian mythology, ‘‘Ocean and mother Tethys’’ are the ‘‘begetting of the gods’’ (Iliad14.201). This way the poet ...
new regime: before them there had been the Titans, and at the beginning there was either Ocean (as in Homer) or Chaos (‘‘the Gap ...
The Diversity and Origins of the Gods The different functions of the gods, though suggestively combined, are largely the product ...
The Olympians, then, have a home, associated in part with a mountain in northern Greece, but where did they actually come from? ...
Apollo Whether or not Apollo is, as is sometimes romantically said, ‘‘the most Greek of all the gods,’’ he is certainly a remark ...
on by the priest Chryses as ‘‘Smintheus’’ (mouse-god). If you are suffering from a plague, you need divine assistance and, thoug ...
followers. Pythagoras was closely associated with Apollo – indeed he was his son, some said. But one can also take a deep breath ...
shrine. At Halae in Attica the cult of Artemis Tauropolos saw a mock-human sacrifice every year, associated with how – at least ...
Conclusion: The Invisibility of the Gods The Artemis that the Greeks sensed in a vibrantly fertile land, standing also in a dang ...
of Zeus was the thunderbolt. Thus the divine is less observed than sensed, as for instance Hippolytus does by its fragrance. If ...
The Olympian gods are in the last resort a model for approaching the divine. It helps in thinking about divine planning to suppo ...
CHAPTER THREE A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion Jennifer Larson In most introductions to Greek religion, the ...
myths and cults remained undeveloped relative to those of the more complex Olympians and the more numerous local gods. The ninet ...
fueled the art and poetry of the Romantics found different outlets in antiquity. In traditional polytheistic cultures, aesthetic ...
fragrant blooms and the music of the cicada. Here, as in Ovid’s description of Diana’s grotto (Metamorphoses3.158–9), nature sim ...
planted, and tells how the nymphs made him an overseer of the place. He lists the resident gods: the nymphs, Pan, and Hermes are ...
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