CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Greco-Persian Wars, Anthropomorphism, Domestic Tragedy

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

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Chapter 6: the nature of the gods and greek religion: anthropomorphism, by now the nature of the anthropomorphic conception of deity that evolved among the. For aphrodite, it is a dove, sparrow, or goose. It usually could make room for new divinities without shock or strain. Athena and artemis: demeter, angry at the rape of her daughter persephone, forces zeus and the gods to come to her terms, zeus must yield to fate or the fates, although this need not always be the case. The tendency in a brief survey such as this is to oversimplify and distort: greek humanism, there also developed a strong and realistic awareness of the miseries, uncertainties, and unpredictability of human life, ordained by the gods. Croesus" own kingdom of lydia eventually was absorbed. In this crisis, croesus consulted various oracles and came to believe that the one of. It is customary to begin a discussion of greek religion by asserting that the ancient.