CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Theogony, Polytheism

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Clst 102 lecture 5: greek religion: the gods: A. think that gods are part of the world (not external) God is all mighty and powerful (not true); there are things that they can do or not. God used for explanation of natural phenomenon. God is perfectly immortal and good (god sometimes act in questionable ways) Scale the humans, priority of humans, and desires of humans (want to be acknowledged and respect, powerful, beautiful toward human) Gods became the reason/cause of the phenomenon (ex. God must behave bad that there is something bad going on right now) Think gods are the symbol of goods and powerfulness that people may think that things that evil cannot happen (however that happen because humans are part of the life and all the gods are not good: greek polytheism. Each gods have diferent interests (ex. very concern about the protection of human rights)

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