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    that he is one true god before Christ‚ most feared god God of sky‚ enforcer of justice for both god and people Has the most devastating power What we know about Zeus was written by ancient Greek author Hesiod around 700 BC‚ that book is called THEOGONY-> which includes a dynastic family rival that ends up with the world we know today His breastplate was the aegis‚ awful to behold; his bird was the eagle‚ his tree the oak. His oracle was Dodona in the land of oak trees. Hera (Juno) She was

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    Pluralism

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    I Introduction: pluralism and the Greeks 1. PLURALISM IN HISTORY To chart the course of pluralism is not a straightforward task. Isaiah Berlin devoted much of his career as a historian of ideas to chronicling and combating the hegemony in Western theory of pluralism’s great rival‚ monism. But what we know about the development of pluralism itself—that is to say‚ which thinkers and which ages can safely or firmly be placed in the pluralist ‘camp’—lacks a comparable certainty. In this way‚ Berlin

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    history 1001

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    What is History? interpretation of the past gathering evidence & analyzing it‚ making interpretations way to construct arguments about past based on evidence goal of class is to teach how to think historically Herodotus ca. 484-420 BC Greek writer of “The History of the Persian Wars” used the word Historion (greek word - questioning‚ inquiry‚ investigation‚ gathering of evidence) his work is an investigation on a war etc. it’s something active - History is investigation/questioning

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    Mythology

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    Princeton: Princeton UP‚ 1965. Finley‚ M. I. The World of Odysseus. New York: Meridian Books‚ 1959. Gennep‚ Arnold van. The Rites of Passage. 1909. Trans. Monika B. Vizedom and G. L. Caffee. Chicago: U of Chicago P‚ 1960. Hesiod. Works and Days / Theogony. Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis: Hacket‚ 1993. Jung‚ Carl Gustav and Carl Kerényi. Essays on a Science of Mythology. 1949. Princeton: Princeton UP‚ 1963. Kirk‚ G. S. The Nature of Greek Myths. New York: Penguin‚ 1974. Leach‚ Edmund. Claude

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    He laid out the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-fold Path: The cause and cure of evil and suffering‚ for the spiritual development of humanity. The First Noble Truth: the human condition includes suffering‚ because life strays from spiritual reality. The Second Noble Truth: we cause much of our own suffering‚ by indulging material concerns‚ rather than those of pure spirit. All forms of selfishness tend to separate us from others‚ life and reality. The Third Noble Truth: Suffering will cease

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    Divine Roles Across Cultures

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    Evidence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press‚ 1998. Graves‚ Robert. Greek Myths. 2 vols. 1955; Harmondsworth‚ England: Penguin‚ 1990. ———. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of a Poetic Myth. New York: Farrar‚ Straus‚ and Giroux‚ 1966. Hesiod. Theogony: Works and Days: Shield. Ed. Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 1983. James‚ Edwin Oliver. The Cult of the Mother-Goddess: An Archaeological and Documentary Study. New York‚ Barnes & Noble‚ 1961. Kerènyi‚ Carl.

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    Religious Education

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    In Catholicism‚ the Magisterium is the teaching authority of the Church.[1] According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church‚ that is‚ to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him."[2] Catholic theology divides the functions of the teaching office of the Church into two categories: the infallible sacred magisterium and the fallible ordinary magisterium. The infallible sacred

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    I. Background Information of Greek Mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks‚ concerning their gods and heroes‚ the nature of the world‚ and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to‚ and study‚ the myths‚ in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece‚ its civilization‚ and to gain understanding of the

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    Oracle Of Delphi

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    Freedom in Greece: The rise and Fall of Delphi Delphi was one of the few institutions of the Greek world considered an authority throughout the Greek polis. A temple dedicated to Apollo‚ a god of light‚ truth‚ and divination. Its location was near a Mt. Parnassus and had a female priestess who answered the questions of the petitioner. The Oracle of Delphi being in a unique position was regarded as an arbiter for the Greeks it assisted in decisions such as war‚ colonization‚ and advice. How Delphi

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    Kantian Spiritual Sexuality

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    Spiritual Sexuality and Women in Absence in Ancient Greek and Indic World Dr. Bimalkumar Subedi Introduction There are many confusions regarding the term ’ Spiritual Sexuality ’. In general‚ the term is understood as an especial form of physical sexuality itself where there thought to be some

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