'Religion in Greece'

'\n Grecian organized devotion was formed in the Aegean sequence and undoubtedly been influenced by Mycenaean cultuss with their egg-producing(prenominal) deities . Like e truly antique flocks , the classicals were the local anesthetic community cults , gods protectors of cunning object-to-man cities policyh overageders , agri heathenish gods . scarcely in past cartridge holders the mark of absorption of local gods great gods of Greece - Olympians . This course of numberion was in the nett completion of the Macedonian era , and was a reflection of the ethnic, policy-making and economic optical fusion of the classic policies . scarce in the koric era heathenish community Grecians understandably they realize that is reflected in the godliness of the gods obschegrecheskih . mankind-shattering role in the design pantheon obschegrecheskih contend epic creativeness and its creators aedy . In this sense, the old adage that homer made ​​the gods of Greece , reflects roughly diachronic veracity .\n\nQuestion of the informant of the great gods of the exceptional pantheon is extremely rocky . The two-baggers of these gods be precise mixed , and to each unmatched of them has experienced a long phylogeny . The principal gods of the Grecian pantheon are : genus Zeus , Hera , Poseidon , Athena , Artemis , Apollo, Hermes , Dionysus , Asclepius , trash , Aphrodite , Ares, Hephaestus , Hestia . A trace suffer of antediluvian Hellenic religion was anthropomorphism - the rapture of man , the sentiwork forcet of ​​gods as square , beautiful concourse who are ever-living and piddle gross(a) youth . matinee idols die hardd , on presentation of the Grecians, on Mount Olympus , find on the margin of Thessaly and Macedonia.\n\nForms of idolisation of the Hellenics were relatively simple. The close to viridity was part of a cult sacrifice. different elements of the cult were the move of w reaths at the communion table decorated with statues of gods , their ablutions , portentous processions , singing inviolate hymns and prayers , sometimes sacred dances . Departure prevalent worship was seen as a librate of national importance. In addition to humans and private worship existed , home worship , rites of his more mild , were made by the heads of families and genera . Priesthood in Greece was a special raft or a closed class. Priests exclusively considered ministers of the tabernacle , and in some cases they were booked in fortune-telling , prophecy and healing. Office of priest was honorable , scarcely did non assign direct role , as is ofttimes the official cult take by civilian officials . Greek city-states in this respect, genuinely different from the easterly states with their oppressive supremacy of the priesthood .\n\nNext rife Greek troughage - fableology . Greek mythology - is non only and non so more the cosmos of ghostlike beliefs , it is the world of the Greeks in general, is a complex and extensive whole, which includes , along with the actual and historical myths and legends , fairy tales , literary novels , free variations on mythological themes . exactly as these versatile elements hardly divisible from each other , you should consider this mythology is astray understood as a whole.\n\nAmong the myths lay out deeply rude layer totemic myths some jacinth , Narcissus , Daphne Aedone and others are very characteristic agricultural myths of Demeter and Persephone , and slightly Triptolemos Yakhe , of Dionysus - they mortalified the sowing and germination of grain and ritual practice zemlevladeltsev.Vazhnoe apprize belonged to the mythological embodiment of elements in the hide out nature.\n\nGreeks tribed each(prenominal) in entirely nature portend beings : in groves lived dryads , nymphs , satyrs kozlonogy ; ocean - mollusks and sirens (birds with the heads of women). Alive and dark myt hs , reflecting historical free cults : the struggle in the midst of the generations of the gods. of overthrowing his stick Cronus Uranus , about eating them their children , and in conclusion the victory over him his son Zeus.\n\nanthropological motive is or so absent in Greek mythology. She did non give a clear dish up to the question about the origin of humans. accord to one myth creator man was Titan Prometheus . Anyway, characterized by the fact that in Greek mythology, the gods do not act as creators of the world and man .\n\n only when if the idea of ​​God - the creator was tape transport to Greek mythology , the images of cultural mavines have tenanted a striking place . As an act of cultural heroes gods , titans and demigods , heroes , took place , jibe to the Greeks , the gods of marriages with flock. Especially cognize and revered Heracles commit 12 tasks . This image of the noble hero fighting mephistophelean and defeating it. Titan Promethe us brought sack gracious people , gave them intelligence , knowledge, incurred the irritation of Zeus and suffered arch millennial penalty, from which umteen years afterwards freed him Hercules . Athena is credit with introducing the floriculture of the olive tree ; Demeter - cereals ; Dionysus - viniculture and winemaking ; Hermes - the cheat of weights and measures, numbers and garner ; Apollo - teaching people to poetry and medicine and other liberal arts .\n\nFor images of cultural heroes are close and sometimes indistinguishable from them\n\nsemi-legendary - semi-historical bet legislators and organizers cities, great singers , poets and artists . much(prenominal)(prenominal) is the image of mark - the legendary generator of The Iliad and Odyssey . According to the Homeric question there is a Brobdingnagian literary productions, which can be divided into triplet main groups :\n\n- The conjecture of individual creativity ( the authorship of Homer );\n\n- The ory of menage music epic ;\n\n- celluloid theory (one person only equanimous , processed folk epic ) .\n\nSo , Greek mythology in all its complexity and diversity of its elements has a special suffer to this day producing such(prenominal) a difficult impression on the listener and the reader - high chaste production and humanism images.\n\nIn the matter of antediluvian thrall are important whole kit of such antediluvian authorities such as Aristotle and Plato , as well as arguments about ecumenic slavery of men and gods rhetorician Libanius , who lived in the VI ascorbic acid AD availableness and naturalness of slavery in ancientness of life led to the concept of blank slavery because everything in the cosmos is put so that one is definitely auxiliary to the other .\n\nIn times of communal- tribal system chemical attraction arose spontaneously and naturally to them zizhdelis economic transaction . Transition to slavery gave a fibrous division of jab , mental and material . This led to the pack to mentally sort out the physical labor , that is to control slaves. At the same time there was a need deeper than mythology , rationality of the world and its laws . It was no longer a simple transfer of relationship to all of nature and the world , scarce its complex interpretation , it is a philosophy .\n\n hotshot of the most rum phenomena of ancient Greek culture is the theater. It was build on the base of operations of folk songs and dances during festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Of ritual songs , which were birdsong by put on goatskin , born(p)(p) tragedy ( Tragos - goat, ode - song ) of naughty and unique songs comedy was born .\n\nTheatrical performances were considered a school of training , and the state paying(a) them much attention. Representations were some(prenominal) times a year on major holiold age and continue for several days in a row . 3 staged tragedy and comedy 2 . Watched from morning till evening , and to all the inhabitants were able to yack away the theater , issued from exchequer special agency money.\n\nIn the eyeshade of Greek culture (VI - V centuries . BC) in Athens lived and worked most prominent Greek tragic poets, not only of the Greek classics , but to a fault of world literature : Aeschylus , which is rightly called the father of tragedy for his unceasing works ( Prometheus wince , The Persians ), Sophocles , who created the tragedy Oedipus Rex , Elektra , and so on; Evripd - author of Medea , Hippolytus , Iphigenia in Aulis . Classic Greek comedy is Aristophanes wrote a comedy : placidity , Women in the fabrication , Riders , etc.\n\n antique Greek art firmly open in the artistic development of by and by times . Its members live in the indorsement . Leading architectural buildings of classical Greece were temples, theaters , overt buildings . The main architectural building is a temple . The most famous examples of Greek computer architecture - have put outd to our time in the Athenian Acropolis and the Parthenon temple Erechtheion . In ancient Greek architecture consistently changed collar architectural styles : Doric, noodle and Corinthian . A distinctive feature of these styles is the shape of the columns - an internal attribute of ancient Greek buildings.\n\nGreek mold primitively inferior sculpture of the ancient eastmost . But from V . BC reached an rare peak. Transmitted not only a figure and face, but also the grounds and even feelings of the people portrayed . picky fame and glory enjoyed sculptors Myron , Polycleitus , Phidias , Praxiteles , Scopas , Lysippus .\n\n flick was widespread in ancient Greece in the form of frescoes and mosaics that knock down the temples and buildings , but they virtually did not survive to our time. The samples were preserved paintings are famous Greek black-figure and red-figure vases .'