CL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lystra, Psychopomp
16 Feb 2017
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The (cid:498)anthropomorphic(cid:499) nature of greek gods indicated that the greeks: were obsessed with the worship of beings that shared animal and human characteristics. The people of lystra showed their faith in the ancient myths by trying to carry out a sacraifice to paul and barnabas, calling barnabas zeus and paul, the speaker: hermes primarily a, weather/sky god. The indo-european root dheu-, from which the word (cid:498)zeus(cid:499) comes, shows him to be. ***the early marriages and children of zeus are meant to show that he: some humans receive only blessings. At olympia, the games primarily were meant to: honor the gods through the pursuit of excellence. This one divinity searches out the will of the fates and executes it, while the other divinities ignore it: zeus. Which one of these is not under the direct supervision of zeus, as discussed in class: oratory. This divinity creates all the beautiful objects used by the gods: hephaestus.
