The Greeks needed to have a reason to explain their beliefs, they truly believed everything was controlled by a greater power. All living things must be controlled by different gods. The belief in the many Gods provided a feeling of security. Ancient Greeks were very spiritual and also philosophical. Most Greek Gods have human personality and appearances.
Alejandro Reynolds Thomson Freshman english 16 December, 15 The ancient greek customs of hospitality, sacrificing animals to the gods,and honoring the dead influenced the epic Odyssey. Customs in the odyssey consist of honoring the dead when odysseus went to the land of the dead odysseus gave his sweet milk and honey,and last sweet wine and clear water to avoid death. soon after runnin into the dead he found one of his men from a previous men who died and never was barred and there was a proper burial and the dead soldier was elpenor so odysseus promest elpenor that they would give him the burial he deserved. odysseus sacrificed a sheep so he would not die in the land of the dead and they also sacrificed animals to the
Zues is my favorite greek god because he has 4 brothers and sisters. The brothers and sisters names are posedian,hades,hestia,hera. He has A wife named hera and a mother named rhea anda fauther named cronus. His chrildren are Aeacus, Angelos, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Pandia, Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, the Graces, the Horae, the Litae, the Muses, the Moirai. I mostly like zues because ZEUS was the king of the gods, and god of the sky, weather, fate and law.
In Bernard Evslin’s Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths, the story of Eros and Psyche teaches the Greeks the importance of trusting others which is shown through Psyche’s mistrust and plot to see her husband. Eros, the God of love, devotes himself to his mother Aphrodite and his father either Hermes or Ares. He embodies his Roman name of Cupid because he shoots arrows to make people fall in love with the next person they lay their eyes upon. To do his job he relies on his ability to fly which makes it easier for him to strike people with his arrows. Based on his job, the symbols of a bow and arrow and hearts suit him.
The Odyssey Final Exam - Written Test In Greek mythology, the influences of the divine are greatly impactful to the mere mortals they oversee. Written by Homer, the epic poem The Odyssey offers detailed insight into the perilous journey of Odysseus’ homecoming, as well as the involvement of many deities and human characters in the myth. After the Trojan War, Odysseus finds himself and his crew lost at sea with little hope of coming home to Ithaka and his family.
Have you ever wondered why Greek Gods were invented, well the gods were created by “man” to explain the world, “Act as a means of exploration and to provide entertainment.” But if you really look at the stories you can see some of the truth of what today's science has come from. But because they were scared of what the truth behind the sun the stars etc. so they made the stories into something they could relate to, but i’m only focusing on three of the most popular gods. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
Priests lacked the power to make religious and political doctrines, their main duties being temple maintenance and properly conducting rituals for various events. That lack of direct control over the government decisions allowed schools of thought develop to question Greek mythos as time went on and Greece encountered other cultures. The conflicting details concerning supernatural explanations of natural events such as floods and storms eventually lead to various thinkers to seek a more rational explanation, leading to the birth of science and philosophy. Science and philosophy often challenged religious explanations and thinking, but there was little backlash from priests due to the inability to make religious doctrines.
Discuss the relationship between reality and the supernatural in the Odyssey In Homer’s “The Odyssey” reality and the supernatural are beautifully blended. These two separated worlds, in Homer’s epic poem become one in a fascinating, but also simple and acceptable way. The interaction between reality and fantasy, between humans and gods is admittedly present from the beginning until the end of the epic. To be more specific, we are introduced to a realistic environment of that era, the life in the palace of Ithaca.
Allegory of the Cave Everyone at one point or another has questioned reality. Plato, back in Greece’s Classical Era, wrote, “Allegory of the Cave”. This allegory talks about prisoners, and how one unique prisoner is treated after being trapped his entire life. In The Cave, Plato urges readers to believe that there are no facts, only interpretations, by finding your own reality based on your own beliefs, not others.
During the Middle Ages a Roman Astronomer named Ptolemy came up with the theory that all surrounding planets orbited around the Earth. Advancement in telescopes and technology helped Copernicus during the renaissance create a more logical and accurate theory which stated how the sun is in the middle of our universe and all planets orbited the sun. This changed the way man thought because it realized how small Earth is compared to the rest of the solar system and how we may not be
In modern science, the world has been proved to be spherical and ruled by nature and natural events. In ancient Greece however, the world was thought to be governed by multiple gods and goddesses. These deities ruled over every action they took, every day they lived, for the Greeks. They used these idols to explain odd events, bad luck, and even how time
Mythology is filled with timeless stories that teach many life lessons. This is especially true of the stories of the ancient Greeks. The Greeks were the first of the ancient people to have gods in their image. (Hamilton 5) Meaning that their gods were not animals or creatures, but men.
Greek/Roman Mythology is a topic which has always fascinated me, the idea that long-ago people believed that the gods ominously reigned over and controlled how their lives played out it fascinating. With such a boundless and copious history full of many different myths and legends that have become so iconic that most people in the current culture and education know at least somewhat about it. I think that the hidden intellectualism in Greek/Roman Mythology lies in the way we go about discovering the many different tales and how they intertwined. This is because, for one to truly grasp many of the stories told, they must first have background on the people, god’s, and creatures that are within the story. On top of that, the folkloric journeys display intellectualism through the way people can argue in a clash of ideas over the choices made by both the mortals and the god's.
At the time the Greeks didn’t have the technology we have to explain these occurrences the earth was making so they had to explain it through corresponding with the gods. Each natural phenomenon that occurred was an act from a deity, it was either to show their eager to help or to just make him suffer even. Our perspective on natural phenomenons is much different compared to the Greeks religion and culture, how they explain a storm is by an action describing Poseidon’s anger contrast to how scientists would explain it as a disturbance in the atmosphere with strong winds and rain. The Odyssey took us back in time to see through the eyes of Greeks of how they explained natural
Religion has been an integral part of society, pre-historic research speculating it to pre-date written history which is 5000 years old. The Earth is a fascinating place, and its life forms never cease to amaze us, even with heavy scientific research explaining them to us. Rain still feels like a miracle rather than a process and rainbows a blessing from heaven than merely a reflection of light. We can only imagine how eerie these natural phenomena felt in a society with no science. The belief in a supernatural power became the explanation for natural scientific processes.
