Athenian Religion
- Polytheistic (more than one god)
- Zeus-King of Gods and ruler of the sky, thunder and lightning, and his pregnant wife that was going to have Athena since he did not want to get over ruled by his offspring, Athena broke out of his skull, brothers: Poseidon and Hades
- Athena-daughter of Zeus, most important, wisdom, handicrafts, defense, and strategic warfare, fought to protect homeland and was fierce and brave
- Poseidon-King of the seas-weapon was the trident and it could shake the Earth and shatter any object-second in power only behind Zeus
- Ares-King of war-very aggressive and unpopular with the gods and humans-personified the brutalness of war-immortal-when he got hurt he would run to his father Zeus and be healed again
- Hera-Queen of gods and goddess of marriage and family-Zeus's wife-mother was Rhea and father was Cronos
- Hermes-He was the messenger for the gods and also the god of commerce and thieves-winged shoes and winged hat
- Hades-God of underworld and dead-very greedy and tried to increase his numbers
- Hephaestus-god of metal work and fire-born lame and weak-was an outcast of Olympus-Made gods weapons and artifacts
- Apollo-god of prophecy-patron of healing-popular with mortals-master archer and fleetfooter-it is said he won the first Olympic games
- Aphrodite-goddess of love and beauty, she was loved by all the gods and humans, married Hephaestus and had many children
- Dionysus-god of wine-making, ecstasy, and celebration-Zeus was his father
- Demeter- goddess of fertility of the earth, crops, nature, and seasons, many humans praised her so they could have a good harvest, sister of Zeus..
- Artemis- virgin goddess of the hunt, moon, animals, archery, and childbirth
- master archer, 6 golden horned deer to pull her chariot, daughter of Zeus, sister of Apollo
- Preyed because they believed that they had to worship and please the gods in order to have a good future
- Greeks participated in a number of rituals, rites, ceremonies, and sacrifices in order to impress the gods
- temples, shrines, statues, were erected as a designated place to offer sacrifices to the gods
- the alter, in front of the temple, was the most important part, where people gathered to worship
- religion was a predominant form of early Pagnism
- religion reflecte many central ideas and concepts of earlier forms of paganism such as Druidism, both ancient and Modern and Withchcraft and Wicca
- Athenian myths-daughter of Zeus-made his daughter with his bright eyed Truitogencia. Zues put his daughter his his own stoamach firts
- contest between poeidon and athena was a half snake half man named Cecrps that had to find a patreon for the Athens
- gods were interested in kdjfkls
- Poseiden struck the groun with his trident and water came out of ground but salty
- Athena stuck her spe kdflk
- The minotaur is a mythical creature that is part man part bull, lives in center of Labyrinth, an
Government
- Limited Democracy, included rich
- The people would directly vote on issues at elections, gave citizens roles, democracy rights, usually only on person
- Aristocreacty- state ruled by nobility, rule is heredity and based on ties social rank wealth, social sturus and wealth support rulers; authority, practiced in athens prior to 594 BC
- Citizen ship-18 years of age, men 2 yrs military train, could take part in gov, adult men were full citizens, athenians thought women were inferior, women couldnt participate in gov
- in athens wealthy nobels and poor people clashed they avoided major political problems by taking reforms, tried to build a democracy, or gov by people, only free adult men were citizens
- Pericles-leader of Athens around 450 BC, made sure all citizens could take part of gov, allowed poor, any citizens could serve on a jury--arranged for them to be paid
- Socrates-teacher of philosophy in 400s, angered some by questioning laws, brought to trial for urging you people to revolt sentenced to death, most famous philosipher in Ancient Greece
- Plato-The republic he dicusses his ideal form of gov in which a society could be constructed to bring out the best behavoir of citizens, people have dif weaks and strnths
- 3 Pillars-Assembly of Demos, The councel
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