ARTEMIS was the great Olympian goddess of hunting‚ wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth‚ and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage. Her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted women and girls‚ and Apollon men and boys. In ancient art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a hunting
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A love goddess is a deity associated with sexuality‚ love‚ fertility‚ beauty‚ and in some occasion’s death. These goddess are common in mythology and may be found in many polytheistic religions. Although there are vast differences among these goddess’‚ since they have to serve each particular culture’s needs‚ there are also many similarities that can be drawn to them. There are two love goddess’ that are believed to have many similarities‚ they are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Norse goddess
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that less of his men will die. This makes him more appreciative of his men. Odysseus faces his biggest challenge with Calypso because‚ “for seven of the ten years Odysseus has spent wandering the Mediterranean Sea‚ he has been held captive by the goddess Calypso on her island‚” (Homer 1206). After Odysseus’ men die from all his other obstacles he is alone to fend for himself. He winds up on Calypso’s island where she holds him for seven years. The time he is there he longs for his wife‚ Penelope.
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In every culture‚ there is some sort of Great Goddess. They are also known as the Creator goddess. These Great Goddesses shares many similarities such as the ability to give birth and nourishing. The idea that a female can generate another life is very amazing. Some historians discovered many artifacts and figures dating back to the Paleolithic period through the Bronze Age. These artifacts proved that this culture worships the Great Goddess and believe that they are the source of all life.
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Wisdom Athena: goddess of Wisdom‚ and Battle Strategy. Athena is famous for her piercing‚ stormy grey eyes. Athena was a part of the Great gods of Mount. Olympus. She had her own throne along eleven different other gods. Out of all all Zeus’s Sons and Daughters‚ Athena is favored the most. “she was Zeus’ favorite child and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt” (Athena). Athena‚ although not one of the original Olympians‚ had a major role in Greek mythology and was highly respected
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The moonstone is called gem of the Goddess Diana. The ancient Roman believed that the moonstones is a trickle of moonlight. In Asia the moonstones is considered the jewel of luck. The Arab culture the moonstones are a symbol of fertility many Arab women sew them in there clothing so they can not be seen. It is said that it is an amulet for protection of the traveler’s. Goddess of the moonstones honors is Cerridewen‚ the welsh goddess of inspiration and knowledge she rules the gifts of prophecy and
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according to the Iliad‚ leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey‚ Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy; the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus. Menelaus fought bravely at Troy‚ although he did not occupy as important a position as his brother Agamemnon‚ who was the commander-in-chief of the Greek forces. At one point he agreed to settle the conflict by single
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Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. She invented math. Her responsibilities were giving wisdom‚ inspiring‚ inventions‚ and protecting Athens. She could change herself into other forms and shapes. Her weapons were a lance‚ shield‚ and a fringed cloak. Athena lived on Mount Olympus. Her parents were Zeus and Metis. Metis was a Titaness. Her birth was more than unusual. Metis was to bring forth the new goddess‚ Athena. Zeus decided to put her into his own belly‚ as Gaia and Uranus had
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The Earth Goddess with Snakes is a very unique sculpture that is designed of a woman that is standing with her shoulders firm and her arms out to her side at an angle holding a snake in each hand. Her long triangular floor length skirt seems to be made up of cloth panels with each layer going upwards getting shorter in length; an apron like item going over her from front to back. Above the apron like item there is a metal belt securing her waist. Her upper portion of her body is exposed at the
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The greeks may have laid the basis for a lot of things in the common era‚ but one thing they did differently was their medicine. They first believed that disease was caused by demons and that Asclepius could cure diseases(quatr). So the doctors thought that they could cure patients through sacrifice and prayer(quatr). They would model the diseased body parts so they could be offered to Asclepius. However‚ by the 5th century B.C.E. doctors started trying a more material approach‚ they started using
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