Meghan Bohles January 11, 2015 Formal Essay Greek mythology and Native American myths are more connected then people may think they are. For one they are polytheist, the belief in, or woship of more then one god. They both make sacrifices to these gods, and they both got run over by other groups of people. These three points are the connection between Atala and Odyssey. In Atala the Native Americans worshiped more than one god, and they are very closely related to the Greek gods.
A cult is a religious group that exists on the fringes of religion. These mystery cults were all different, yet they all had major elements that were common throughout them. All Greeks wanted to have salvation and eternal life so that was the foundation of all the mystery cults. Also many Greeks wanted to have an emotional connection with a higher power. These mystery religions formed so that Greeks could have that emotional bond with a god/goddess.
The Greek worshiped the gods of mount Olympus, including Zeus, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, Apolla, and Poseidon. The Romans worshipped the same gods just under different names, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Minerva, Pluto, and Neptune. Education was also important to the Romans, although they only sent their male children to school. Both Rome and Greece had key philosophers. Greece had Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
This paper will be discussing the origin of the Greek titan, Rhea. Rhea was the Titan daughter of the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia. She was the Titan mother of the gods, and a goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. The ancient Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right. Her name means "flow" and "ease."
The Greek art represents idealism and Roman art was mostly based on history rather than mythology. The Romans liked to identify their God and copy the Greek iconography. The statue of Dionysos represented a Roman God. This statue is shown standing with right foot little ahead of left, like controposto, where one leg is in tension and other is relaxed. His left arm is placed on the female figure.
In Rome the entire citizen had the obligation to satisfy the Gods.In Ancient Romans used the Greek pantheon but gave them different names. The Roman worshiped the gods by sacrificing animals on the altar and praying to their God. The gods played an important role in a Roman’s life because the Romans believed that the Gods controlled everything and you and plead with them to change. The Romans built temples as a sacred place of worship. In Australia temples/churches all had the same basic design.
An example of different cultures causing conflict was the suggestion by King of Ancient Persia, Darius suggesting that the Callatians, who customarily ate their dead, swapped their funeral customs with the Greeks, who cremated their dead. The Callatians were horrified by the idea of burning their dead and the Greeks were horrified by the idea of eating their dead. The discoveries of these different civilisations with their different views caused the Greeks to question the absoluteness of their moral ideas. At this point a series of learned people, called Sophists emerged and debated that morality was relative and a matter of opinion. They believed that what was right and wrong varied from time to time, from place to place and from person to person.
The significance of roman religion played a major role on the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It was established in the 6th century and was influenced by not only the Greeks of Campania but also the Egyptians, the Pompeian and herculean religious practices were diverse from others as they had the pantheons involved such as Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Vesta, Ceres, Diana, Venus, mars, and mercury, Neptune, Vulcan and Apollo. Religion in Pompeii and Herculaneum was very broad and polytheistic as they worshipped more then one god therefore Deities and others were worshipped in different ways and peoples worships was in a form of offering, sacrifices, festivals, games and rituals. The practices of belief and rituals were either in public or private areas such as their homes. A lot of the gods /goddesses were seen phenomenal immortal forces and believed to posses certain powers and were associated with different factors of life.
Menrva, for example, an immensely popular deity, was regarded as a sponsor of marriage and childbirth, in contrast to the virgin Athena, who was much more concerned with the affairs of males. Many of the gods had healing powers, and many of them had the authority to hurl a thunderbolt. There were also deities of a fairly orthodox Greco-Roman character, such as Hercle (Heracles) and Apulu (Apollo), who were evidently introduced directly from Greece yet came to have their designated spaces and
Rome has a location very close to the Mediterranean Sea. The land is made up of hilly land and is situated between two sets of mountains; the Alps and Apennines. Religion: Greeks worshipped many Gods, each God represented an element and Greek mythology deciphered each God and their relations to mankind, such as Zeus, Apollo, and Hermes. Like the Greeks, Romans also worshipped various Gods. Each God had an intended day of worship for which temples were built throughout the land.