horse‚ dolphin | 4. Hades | Pluto | The Underworld | Pomegranate‚ cap of invisibility | 5. Hestia | Vesta | Hearth/Home | Fireplace | 6 Athena | Minerva | Wisdom/War | Owl‚ olive‚ tree‚ plow‚ loom | 7. Artemis | Diana | Moon/Hunt | Moon‚ deer‚ silver bow and arrows | 8. Apollo | Apollo | Light/Music/Prophecy | Lyre‚ sun‚ mice‚ Laurel tree | 9. Aphrodite | Venus | Love/Beauty | Dove‚ swan‚ roses | 10. Hephaestus | Vulcan | Fire/Forge | Hammer‚ quail | 11. Ares | Mars | War | Dog‚ wild boar
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The gateway to this site‚ visible in the foreground at the lower right‚ is called the: a. Erechtheion b. Parthenon c. Temple of Hera d. Stoa of Attalus e. Propylaia 102. The main temple shown at the upper right is dedicated to: a. Athena b. Erectheus c. Portunus d. Aphrodite 103. The primary function of the main temple shown at the upper right is: a. an interior gathering space for worshippers b. a venue for religious games c. a house for the statue of a god or goddess d. a fortification high on a hill
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THE ROMAN RELIGION As the Roman Empire grew‚ it came across several different religions. “As the empire expanded across the Balkans‚ Asia Minor and into Egypt‚ Roman religion absorbed many of the gods and cults of conquered nations‚ but the primary influence would always remain Greece” (Wasson‚ Donald). After the Romans conquered Greece‚ they adapted the gods the Greeks were worshipping. Most‚ if not all‚ of the Greek deities were renamed and given slightly different characteristics. Not only were
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CLASSICISM In the early 5th century Greek artists began consciously to attempt to render human and animal forms realistically. This entailed careful observation of the model as well as understanding the mechanics of anatomy - how a body adjusts to a pose which is not stiffly frontal but with the weight shifted to one side of the body‚ and how a body behaves in violent motion. The successors to the archaic kouroi‚ mainly athlete figures‚ are thus regularly shown ’at ease’‚ one leg relaxed‚ with a
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gone Clytemnestra plotted with her lover‚ Aegisthus‚ revenge. Once King Agamemnon returned‚ he was murdered by the duo‚ but the gods deemed this act unacceptable. If Clytemnestra were a man the tale would have most likely ended here. But Apollo and Athena hid Orestes until he was of age and convinced that he should follow with the worst crime any Greek could ever commit‚ matricide. After the murdering his mother‚ Orestes was haunted by the Furies (who were known for pursuing particularly heinous criminals
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statue of a god or goddess‚ or multiple deities‚ and might be decorated with relief scenes depicting myths. Divine images were common on coins. Drinking cups and other vessels were painted with scenes from Greek myths. Gods & Goddesses Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη‚ Aphroditē) Goddess of love‚ beauty‚ desire‚ and pleasure. Although married to Hephaestus she had many lovers‚ most notably Ares‚ Adonis‚ and Anchises. She was depicted as a beautiful woman and of all the goddesses most likely to appear nude or
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4 Phases of Greek Art * Geometric 900-600 B.C.E * Archaic 600-480 B.C.E * Classical 980-323 B.C.E * Hellenistic 323-31 * Large funerary Vase * Known as Diphlon Vase or Krator * From the geometric era * Made from busted clay * Ceramics were used for storage * It also showed a lot of culture with images * The Greek buried their dead & practiced cremations Bronze Man & Centaur * Human body mixed with a horse like figure * Centaur from lefkand
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Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently
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would later marry she was goddess of the marriage and family‚ Demeter was the goddess of corn and grain‚ and Hestia was goddess of architecture. Zeus had many children with many women Aecis‚ Agelos ‚ Aphrodite goddess of beauty ‚ Apollo god of music ‚ Ares god of war ‚ Artemis goddess of the wild‚ Athena goddess of wisdom ‚ Dionysus god of wine ‚ Eileithyia‚ Enyo‚ Eris‚ Ersa‚ Hebe‚ Helen of Troy was part of starting the Trojan War ‚ Hephaestus god of fire he lived in a volcano and made the fire for
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Athena‚ he flooded the whole city. This reactive nature is present in the behavior of the moon goddesses as well. We can see this when‚ after spying on her bathing‚ Artemis turns Actaeon into a stag‚ and he is killed by his own dogs. Elements in nature that tend to appear more uncontrollable and reactive are‚ those elements that act chaotically and create chaos in society‚ are reflected by deities that behave similarly. The vast‚ sprawling sea doesn’t seem to car much about human life‚ nor does Poseidon
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