AR104 Lecture 2: AR104 Lecture 2
4 Feb 2016
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Ar104-lecture 2- divine worship in festivals and daily life. Statue of zeus- so large, hardly fits in museum: represents how large the god actually is. Evidence present from earliest form of greek writing that some familiar gods were worshipped as early as mycenaean times (ca. Most evidence is focused around the 5th century bce (500-400: alexander the great. Hades (god of dead) is an olympian but did not live on mount olympus. Children of cronus and rhea are: zeus, hestia, hades, hera, poseidon and demeter. Most greek gods have analouges to roman side. Romans amalgamated some greek myths to their own divinities and cover a similar theological space: artemis & diana for hunting. Romans also had some gods of their own. Polytheism: story about the gods, belief in many gods. Monotheism: belief in one god alone. Pantheon: the polytheism of pre-christian greece and rome, full assortment of gods and goddesses.
