The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

economic and industrial centre, and generous patronage by the Ptolemies, who set up its famous museum and library, made it a cul ...

imposed taxes on the general population but otherwise did not interfere with local ways and customs. Antioch grew to be a large ...

His younger brother Attalus II, who succeeded Eumenes, was similarly philhel- lenic. In gratitude for the education he had recei ...

customs provided that they paid their taxes and thus recognized the authority of the king. The Maccabees took up arms and regain ...

century. In the second century AD, the philhellene emperor Hadrian built a library and gymnasium. He funded the completion of th ...

3 RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE Religion The Olympians The origin of Greek mythology and beliefs about the gods must go way back in t ...

94 THE GREEKS THEOGONY: Olympian deities (so called from their dwelling place on Mt Olympus) Ouranos (Heaven) = Gaia (Earth) Cro ...

Euripides’ Bacchaein which he comes from the east as a mysterious stranger to Thebes. But his name is known to the Linear B tabl ...

And now the Greeks their hecatomb prepare; Between their horns the salted barley threw, And with their heads to heav’n the victi ...

punishment in Hell. Once again, the Homeric representation of the afterlife seems typical of general Greek belief. When Odysseus ...

accounts of many of the principal deities, such being the nature of mythology. It follows from this, that there is no common doc ...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE 99 the goddess. A major function of the temple in fact was to contain the god’s possessions, often voti ...

100 THE GREEKS N 0 50 metres Theatre Knidian Lesche Templ e of Apol l o Naxian Sphinx Portico of the Athenians Treasury of the P ...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE 101 FIGURE 24 The ‘Charioteer of Delphi’ is a life-size bronze statue dedicated at Delphi by Polyzalos, ...

FIGURE 25The reconstructedTreasury of Athensat DelphiSource: Photo © Thinkstock/Lefteris http://www.ebook3000.com ...

FIGURE 26The reconstructedtholos in theAthena Pronaiasanctuary at DelphiSource: Photo © Thinkstock/Lefteris ...

a banqueting room called the Cnidian Lesche decorated apparently by the famous painter Polygnotus and equipped for symposia, so ...

widely celebrated throughout Greece, which is hardly surprising given the importance of wine in Mediterranean culture. There was ...

The Eleusinian Mysteries Their mythical origin is contained in the Homeric Hymn to the earth goddess Demeter in which she is ref ...

Who is her father, and what is his deme? Have you an Apollo Patroosand a Zeus Herkeios? Have you a family tomb and where is it? ...