CLA201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syncretism, Proserpina, Cocytus
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Greeks took their gods seriously: greek religion: sanctuaries, sacrifices, festivals, devoted their precious land to the sanctuaries for the gods, how to perform correct rituals correctly, in a correct space, etc. (number one sacrifice sacrifice, like animal sacrifice, could be a sacrifice of food, that has to do a lot with anthromorphism, anthromorphism (vs. animism, to make gods more comprehensible to people (to understand what motivates them, why they do what they do, elevates human beings above animals, imagine the gods to be more understandable towards people (have empathy towards human beings in some degree, to deal with gods like people deal with each other. But they moved away from that in their believe of their major gods: attributes (iconography, visual representation of gods, in a lot of art god and goddesses look the same, however there are the attributes that help us distinguish what god we are looking at, epithets, titles that get attached to certain gods, ex.
