CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Femur, Gordias, Indo

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Denied to the god is the power to undo the past : aristotle. Olympus or in heaven: difference of the gods in the upper air and upperworld (olympians) and those in the realm below named chtonian of the earth, food is ambrosia, and win nector. Ichor is the substance cleare than blood flows in their vein. Worshipped in temples, shrines, sanctuaries, and honored with statues, scarifices and invoked prayers. God more versatile than mortal: move fast, dexterity, appear, disappear, various forms, human, animal, and divine. Gods are not omnipotent; exept zeus, but even zeus subject to fate or fates. Omnisecne = zeus, except apollo who communicate knowledge of the future to mortal: gods = importality; dinvince characteristics athanatos (immortal). G(cid:396)eek i(cid:374) ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) pe(cid:396)iod did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)o(cid:396)ship a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als as s(cid:272)a(cid:396)ed. Gorgon and harpies rep differnet category of supernatural world, diffenret ord, dincine spiritis who animate nature.