CLAS 150: Week Six
Key Terms, Dates, Individuals
Zeus Hera
Aphrodite Poseidon
Apollo Artemis
hero cult nymphs
Panathenaea
Issues, Questions to Consider
- Make sure you are able to make some general observations on the Greek
religious belief system. What can we say about the variety of
divinities in the Greek world? Anthropomorphic qualities?
- What can we say about when the Greeks practiced religion? How?
Why?
- Make sure you are able to draw some basic comparisons between ancient
Greek and modern western religious beliefs and practices.
- How did the polis organize religion?
- How did religion organize the polis?
- What are the basic components of the Panathenaea? Why was it
celebrated? When? Where?
- What are some of the ideological implications of the Panathenaea?