[CLA2323] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

This worship may have been shared between (a) the indigenous people of mainland greece and (b) the accomplished minoan civilization of the island of crete. Such worship of female principles was probably new to the first greeks, and probably it was attractive to them: probably it spoke to certain deficiencies in their traditional indo-european worship a worship focused (we think) on male gods. Eventually, the greeks would embrace the native mother-goddess but only in certain forms; the supreme greek deity would remain their sky-father, zeus. Thus, the greek religion as familiar to us from the historical era, around 500 b. c. , would include several important goddesses. The greek goddesses hera, athena, artemis, and persephone all seem to have been pre-greek in origin. That is, originally these goddesses may have been worshipped by the minoan. Civilization of crete and/or by the pre-greek people of the mainland. Europeans adopted them into a greek religion was still evolving, probably during 2100 1600 b. c.