Ancient Greece religion The Greeks had a big religion with 12 main gods and a lot of minor gods. The 12 gods were Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Poseidon, Hermes, Hera, Aphrodite, Demeter, Ares, Artemis, Hades, Hephaistos, and Dionysus. Greeks would sacrifice their tame animals to please a certain god he only goddess that had wild animals sacrificed to her was Artemis, goddess of hunting, the moon and twin sister to Apollo who was god of the sun, music and oracles. Gods were believed to be the cause of disasters such as: floods, famine, droughts and earthquakes. Gods often became patrons with different villages for example Athena became the patron of Athens after winning a contest with her uncle, Poseidon. Greeks would leave clay replicas of different …show more content…
The Greek civilisation invented many different things we use commonly such as drama, democratic government, the Hippocratic Oath, the peer jury and marathons. Hippocrates was known as the great ancient Greek physician and the father pf medicine. He taught about how sicknesses had natural causes and could be cured. He was the first to believe that medicine was not part of religion or science. Athens invented the democratic government or the “demokratia” meaning “rule by the people” in 507 B.C. This government had a system of courts and selected representatives to make laws and mange foreign policy. Greeks like Aeschylus wrote tragedy plays that was used to display the political and social worries. Unlike Aeschylus, comedians like Menander wrote plays to mock the upper classes. Peer juries were used to decide important cases or to pass judgement on potential laws decided by the assembly. Juries were often filled with rich elderly rather than normal town’s people. Geometric and mathematical deduction was studied differently by Geeks, than those who came before them. Pythagoreans, led by Pythagoras, applied mathematical values to everything around them and studied the properties of numbers, they created new applications for