Homeric Hymns

goddesses, and had no trouble getting men to “stand at attention”. Aphrodite had several affairs with both mortals and gods showing that her power over men was unmatched. Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but only because Zeus told her to. In The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite it says that, “each god prayed that he

They had many worshipping temples built for their gods and prayed to them every day. Many created hymns to their gods as a form of worship, thanking them for everything they had done for them. The Homeric Hymns speak of the greatness of all their gods. A hymn to Hera says “Of Hera I sing, whose throne is golden, whom Rhea bore, the immortal queen, beyond compare in beauty of form” (Crudden, 80). When speaking of the gods they

to humans in mythology • Mythology has real places in it. • The gods have flaws like humans, but in the end the hero always conquers the creatures • Religion Is important. • The main sources in this book are comprised of the Ovid, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,, Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollodorus, and Virgil. Part One: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes P1-Ch. 1 (The Gods): • The universe created the gods. • Heaven and earth were the first parents

As one of the most well-known and studied artists of the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli changed many of the ideals of Renaissance painting. His devotion to the depiction of “the Beautiful” resulted in rhythmic and poetic art that has left realism and logic behind in the quest for divine beauty. Through abstraction and the divine, Botticelli “transposed onto a plane of pure spirituality where no distinctions or fine shades are any longer possible, where all values are balanced out and merged”

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, coupled with the surviving evidence, allows modern historians to paint a consistent portrait of the Eleusinian mysteries. The Hymn to Demeter was composed in Attica no later than the 7th century B.C. and served for centuries thereafter as the canonical hymn of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Nilsson, 2016). The anonymously transcribed source tells the tale of Persephone’s abduction by Hades, God of the underworld (Sailors, 2007). The Hymn reveals the significance

Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, theater, fertility and ritual madness, and was worshipped for centuries, but how he was depicted varied greatly throughout time. The “Dionysus Cup,” (fig. 2) a black-figure painted clay pot, was created by the Athenian artist Exekias between 540 and 530 BCE, at the end of the Archaic period. The “Free-standing Dionysos with a panther,” (fig. 1) a marble statuette, was sculpted by an unknown artist between 150 BCE and 100 CE, at the end of the Hellenistic period

Perseus’ Homeric sacrifice with the same narratological brush as the bacchanalian excess animi…laeti. Could this invite a direct comparison with Bacchus, the purveyor of rituals? The end-stop on line 756 lends itself to this sort of reading. Indeed, the definitive placement of altae for Mercurius, Minerua and Juppiter, juxtaposes Ovid’s use of the enjambment lyraeque /tibiaquae on 760 – 761; evoking the excess, the spilling over, of marital festivity. This is strongly reflective of Ovid’s hymn (9-30)

This myth is the most important one Hades takes part in; it also connected the Eleusinian Mysteries with the Olympian pantheon, particularly as represented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which is the oldest story of the abduction, most likely dating back to the beginning of the 6th Century

The term “Marriage” is a sacred union between a man and a woman as husband and wife in a special relationship. In some cases, the union of two people becoming partners in a marriage are not necessarily decided by themselves but are selected by their own family or a professional matchmaker which is commonly known as arranged marriage. This form of marriage was a very common practice in the past that has been carried out for centuries in various cultures and countries thus this tradition was not strange

Delphi was one of the most important sites in all of ancient Greece. The city of Delphi housed one of the greatest enigmas of the ancient world: the Pythia. Situated along the side of Mount Parnassus, at The Temple of Apollo the Pythia, Apollo’s highest priestess was said to be the greatest oracle in all the land. Dating back to the 14th Century B.C.E. the oracle spat out prophecies to open ears. Apollo, as the god of all oracles, as well as many other things, was the patron saint of Delphi. People