Herodotus Greek God

In Christianity, the Devil is represented as the founder of an empire “on fire”, an empire that struggles against and counteracts the kingdom of God. The Devil is described as an entity who is filled with evil power, but not enough power to overcome Christ if they were to duel. Though the Devil is not as powerful as Christ, he’s unfettered, given the designation of being the ultimate source of evil power. Since the inception of Christianity, portrayals of the Devil have been fundamental in instilling fear within the Christian population. The Devil’s abilities and appearance has become feared by approximately 31.5% of the world’s population. As historians have had access to the past that they haven’t had before, it’s been discovered that the iconography of the Devil isn’t necessarily original, but rather, inspired from religions with an age older than Christianity. While there’s an infinite amount of possible sources available to attribute the iconography of the Christian Devil to, the Greek god Pan provides source materials that show imagery and behavior similarities to the Christian Devil. By analyzing texts by ancient authors such as Hesiod and Ovid, as well as paintings and sculptures spanning multiple centuries, I will argue that the Greek god Pan’s iconography and behavior was used as inspiration for the Christian Devil.

The devil at the dawn of Christianity bore little resemblance to the ruler of hell, the antichrist and agent of evil that he is known as in present day. Satan makes few overt or implied appearances in the Old Testament. For the important role of God’s greatest adversary, early Christians had to flesh out great parts of Satan’s story in order to develop him into his present, fearsome persona. The Christian story of the Devil is heavily influenced by earlier Greek mythology, and early Christian writings about the Devil co-opted local mythology in order to gain new converts and discredit popular pagan beliefs.

One of the problems that we have today is getting completely accurate information from ancient times because of the lack of concrete evidence. An example of this would be Ancient Greece. Much of what we know about ancient Greece today comes from the information from people who lived in that time period. An example of this would be Herodotus and his insight on events such as the Battle of Thermopylae which occurred in the Persian Wars. There have been numerous authors and researchers who have based their research on the Battle of Thermopylae solely on Herodotus. The question now is what makes Herodotus a reliable source and are the researchers that are citing him limited to his findings or, are they expanding on them. By understanding the secondary sources over the Battle of Thermopylae and how they described the battle as well as their references to Herodotus’s findings and life, it will be clear if as a society we should be relying on the history report of Herodotus.

Elaine Pagels seeks to clarify ongoing questions with Christians and Satan and how Christians managed to create such a demonic figure in The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics. Pagels aims at taking a very complex subject and making her readers understand how Christianity developed along with Satan. Pagels gives several examples from many different time periods. This paper will aim at summarizing main points on how Satan was created. As well, how Christianity used Satan to demonetize Jews, Pagans and Heretics. Further, a brief opinion on if Christians had not developed Satan how would western history be different today. Satan continues to be one of the most recognized figures in today’s culture, considering out how this figure came to be is complex yet fascinating.

Satan, as in most pieces of literature and media, is depicted as a root of evil in the Inferno and Bedazzled. In Dante’s Inferno, the deepest circle of the

The gods of Greece have a very interesting history. They had many beliefs for the gods and goddesses. Citizens of greece for many years have believed that there was many powerful beings that controlled everything. All of them had a role. Greeks had an entire way of life due to the gods like: origin, art, legends, proficiencies,and types of gods.

The resemblance in the religions of both civilizations did not stop there. Some scholars have found texts whereby Herodotus, a Greek historian, uses Greek god’s names in reference to Egyptian gods. Herodotus refers to Atum (Ra) as Zeus. Ra and Zeus are both considered the king of the gods, and father of many gods. Pharaohs were also considered sons of Ra, similar to heroes in ancient Greek text, who are demi-gods that are often sons of Zeus, although they do not rule but are leaders in war.

Around 700 BC, “Theogony tells the story of the universe’s journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) to being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended from Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Pontos (sea), and Tartaros (the underworld)” (History.com). Zeus made himself the sky god, Hestia became the goddess of Earth, Poseidon ruled the sea, Demeter as goddess of fertility, Hera was once the goddess of marriage and childbirth until she married Zeus, and Hades, the god of the underworld. Another story written about Greek myths is Odyssey.

15. Herodotus is more of histrionic you can say story teller, he likes to explain and you know get it out there in other words exaggerate stories to hyperbolize a moral or lesson that are helpful . Thucyidides is leaning more of a scientific historian. but saying all these we can agree Both men are basically fathers of historical recounts they just go along different paths, appealing to other audiences. thats how it works dont ask me. lol

Completely accepting the Ancient Greek gods` definition is not something that we must easily do. For the definition of virtue has undoubtedly changed the course of human history. Furthermore, the gods who ordained such virtues were temperamental and, in no way, completely virtuous. Despite whatever changes may have occurred in our idea regarding virtue, the essence remains the same: help others or oneself, act justly and kindly and so on. Thus, we do not need to disregard the changes that have occurred, even if we wish to learn the teachings of Homeric epics.

In the modern day people don’t really believe or care to learn about Greek god mythology they think it’s just old history or made up, but it’s not. It still lives on till this day. There are many famous Greek goods to know about an NIKE was one of the very popular gods, since everybody wanted victory. Who is NIKE? To Greek god mythology NIKE or NI-KAY as they say was the winged goddess of victory both in war and peace. NIKE has the wings of an angle and rides a chariot. She the daughter of Athena and Styx and sister of Kratos, (war), (strength) BIA, (force) and Zelus. Nike was the only goddess of victory and helped many mortals with competition if they were loyal to her. She sat next to Zeus and help Zeus achieve victory with defending

Satanic, Diabolical, Underworld, Demonic and Infernal are all familiar terms used by the fear mongering ideological opponents such as the Christian faith often unacknowledged its beliefs and practices. Satanism is probably the most unappreciated religious ideology and philosophy looked down and frowned upon around the world ever since any founded religion in history was founded. Almost all religious communities have formed their personal idea of an evil existence in their religion created to destroy or persuade them to do evil deeds. Although they all have their different versions of evil and their image of Satan, nevertheless they all condemn the same base of Satanism and its servants.

When a person hears Satan, a streak of fear, and the thought of evil arises. People fear Satan, and think of him as evil, but in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, he displays a thought of the Father being the evil being, and Satan a tragic hero. In Paradise Lost, Book 1 and 2, the minor areas where God is shown, He is displayed as hypocritical. He contradicts himself by creating the humans to be of free will, but when Satan displays free will, he is shunned. Satan could be described in many terms, and by many people, but all can be disputed. According to my sources, Satan is displayed as the hero, while God is the evil deity, and Milton was wrong for writing Him as so. In this essay, I will show my thoughts on the subject of Satan as an evil

In addition, Gerald Massey in his book, The Beginnings, stated the charge of performing unclean rites, comes forth directly from the Jewish writers against their own people, (“They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, [Seirim, goats, i.e. Pan] after whom they have gone a whoring, Lev 17:7) Again, this involvement with these goat creatures exists as being precisely attacked here by the Jewish authorities. Clearly, due to the embarrassment of this behavior, and without a doubt, wanting to conceal it; obviously, through time the size of the problem of these activities became underestimated, yet occurred as a real struggle.

Aristotle’s own term to describe the Aristotelian god as alive very well makes sense. In his sense, God is alive, and the entire world is alive through the oneness of God. The idea of being alive or not alive applies in everyday human life; however, this does not apply to God as God is not bounded and is beyond by these ideas. In the Metaphysics Book 7, Aristotle wrote “If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal. We say therefore that God is a living being, eternal,