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Zeus (king of gods) Hera (marriage, wife of Zeus) Hestia (hearth) Poseidon (sea) Hades (underworld) Demeter (agriculture)
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Ares (war)Dionysos (wine) Hephaistos (forge) Apollo (sun, music, healing) Artemis (moon, hunting) Athena (wisdom) Aphrodite (love) Hermes (messenger)
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If stuff goes wrong… 1. Try sleeping in a temple 2. Consult an oracle (e.g. at Delphi) 3. Consult a magician or a seer (mantis) Not necessarily a priest (hiereus)
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Sacrifices: 1. Food and drink 2. Animals, parts only unless: a) Sacrifice to heroes b) Homicide, to appease Erinyes (Furies)
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Or resort to… Prayer Supplication/sanctuary
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Festivals: Some specific to phratriai or demoi Some city festivals e.g. Panathenaia (summer, Athena Polias) and City Dionysia (late winter/early spring) Acropolis
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Eleusinian Mysteries Towards end of summer Public and secret aspects Demeter, goddess of agriculture Persephone, her daughter
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Hades, god of the Underworld Zeus, king of the gods Plato (d. 348 BC), Republic
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Olympia Olympics (776 BC-at least 261 AD) Zeus Olympos Olympiads Philip II of Macedon (r. 360/359-336 BC) pankration
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Victory, and defeat Others attending the games The games and politics
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Hesiod (c. 700-670 BC) Farmer, from Askra in Boiotia Claims was made a singer by Muses of Mt Helikon Theogony Works and Days
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