It was believed that the family of Greek gods lived in a cloud palace above Mount Olympus (the highest mountain in Greece). These gods were thought to have special powers, and each had control over a different aspect of life. Many of them also appear in the tales of Greek mythology. Zeu...
What is the influence of philosophy and in what way do the gods of late antiquity differ from those of classical Greece? This volume presents a synchronic and diachronic view of these characters in the decades before Christianity.
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内容简介· ··· The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very muc...
The distinction between the playful and tragic story in Hercules (1997) and the more realistic myth of Heracles is the Ancient Greek’s views of their gods. The gods in Ancient Greece were fickle, immature, jealous, and emotional. They fought amongst themselves and brought their fighting to ...
In the video, about the history of the Greek Theater, people are said have gathered together to dance and sing and praise Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility. One reason the people of Ancient Greece worshiped the gods is that they believed they were powerful controllers of the world. ...
Perhaps the most striking instance which she quotes is the Anthesteria, or festival of flowers, at the close of which the spirits were dismissed with the formula, “Depart, ye ghosts, the revels now are ended.” Mr. Andrew Lang has suggested that the animals associated with gods and ...
Who were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who worshipped them? Although their time of widespread worship is long gone, the Greek and Roman gods have fascinated and inspired writers and artists for millennia. From Aphrodite to Apollo, Poseidon...
城邦创建者,半神人,政治的艺术(as Aristotle understood it, the task of the founder of a polis was to teach the tribes who were to compose it, not how to impose themselves on one another, not the arts of violence, but the art of accommodating themselves to one another, the art, as he ...