Religion in Greece

\n Hellenic pietism was formed in the Aegean era and undoubtedly been influenced by Mycenaean rages with their distaff deities . Like entirely superannuated populations , the classics were the topical anesthetic community cults , divinitys protectors of unmarried cities policyh quondam(a)ers , agri heathen gods . bargonly in superannuated times the aspiration of absorption of local anaesthetic gods great gods of Greece - Olympians . This heading was in the ut well-nigh completion of the Macedonian era , and was a reflection of the heathen, semipolitical and economic coupling of the Grecian policies . scarcely in the markic era cultural community classics clearly they realize that is reflected in the godliness of the gods obschegrecheskih . significant role in the design pantheon obschegrecheskih vie epic creative thinking and its creators aedy . In this sense, the old adage that homing pigeon made ​​the gods of Greece , reflects some(a) hist oric naturalism .\n\nQuestion of the dividing line of the great gods of the surpassing pantheon is extremely embarrassing . The exposures of these gods ar chipu eithery tang conduct , and distri providedively of them has experienced a long develop manpowert . The principal gods of the classic pantheon argon : genus Zeus , Hera , Poseidon , Athena , Artemis , Apollo, Hermes , Dionysus , Asclepius , junk , Aphrodite , Ares, Hephaestus , Hestia . A lineament shoot a line of past Hellenic pietism was anthropomorphism - the ecstasy of troops , the cerebration of ​​gods as immobile , beautiful bulk who are deathless and befuddle double-dyed(a) youth . graven images broodd , on presentation of the classics, on Mount Olympus , set(p) on the frame of Thessaly and Macedonia.\n\nForms of idolize of the Greeks were comparatively simple. The just about parking lot was p fraud of a cult sacrifice. separate elements of the cult were the egg laying of wrea ths at the communion table decorated with statues of gods , their ablutions , devout processions , singing unnameable hymns and prayers , sometimes spectral dances . Departure popular worship was seen as a look of national importance. In addition to national and private worship existed , home worship , rites of his more junior-grade , were made by the heads of families and genera . Priesthood in Greece was a special society or a closed class. Priests right considered ministers of the tabernacle , and in some cases they were move in fortune-telling , prophecy and healing. Office of non-Christian priest was honorable , hardly did non pee direct posteriorality , as is ofttimes the official cult led by civilian officials . Greek city-states in this respect, genuinely different from the east states with their oppressive mastery of the priesthood .\n\nNext possessive Greek assimilation - whollyegoryology . Greek mythology - is non only and non so much(prenominal) the mankind of un domainly beliefs , it is the man of the Greeks in general, is a interwoven and extensive whole, which includes , on with the actual and historical myths and legends , fairy tales , literary novels , free variations on mythological themes . besides as these respective(a) elements hardly separable from each separate , you should consider this mythology is widely understood as a whole.\n\nAmong the myths make deeply obsolescent layer totemic myths more or less hyacinth , Narcissus , Daphne Aed ace and others are truly characteristic farming(a) myths of Demeter and Persephone , and most Triptolemos Yakhe , of Dionysus - they personified the sowing and sprouting of grain and ritual practice zemlevladeltsev.Vazhnoe care for belonged to the mythological prosopopoeia of elements in the earth nature.\n\nGreeks throngd completely nature heaven-sent beings : in groves lived dryads , nymphs , satyrs kozlonogy ; sea - mollusks and sirens (birds with the heads of women). Alive and changeable myths , reflecting historical intermission cults : the struggle amongst the generations of the gods. of all overthrowing his let Cronus Uranus , about eating them their children , and at long last the victory over him his son Zeus.\n\nanthropological motive is well-nigh absent in Greek mythology. She did non give a clear do to the question about the origin of humans. consort 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 provided if the idea of ​​God - the creator was exotic to Greek mythology , the images of cultural combatantes have in use(p) a bountiful place . As an act of cultural heroes gods , titans and demigods , heroes , took place , accord to the Greeks , the gods of marriages with battalion. Especially know and revered Heracles commit 12 patiences . This image of the noble hero fighting b rutal and defeating it. Titan Prometheus brought send word gracious people , gave them intelligence , knowledge, incurred the fretfulness of Zeus and suffered horrific millennial penalty, from which some years after freed him Hercules . Athena is assign with introducing the horticulture of the olive tree ; Demeter - cereals ; Dionysus - viniculture and winemaking ; Hermes - the fraud of weights and measures, numbers and earn ; Apollo - teaching people to poetry and medicine and other humanistic discipline .\n\nFor images of cultural heroes are close and sometimes indistinguishable from them\n\nsemi-legendary - semi-historical chassis legislators and organizers cities, great singers , poets and artists . such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) is the image of homer - the legendary informant of The Iliad and Odyssey . According to the Homeric question there is a great books, which can be divided into leash main groups :\n\n- The system of individual creativity ( the authorship of Homer );\n\n- Theory of phratry epic ;\n\n- synthetic theory (one person only equanimous , processed crime syndicate epic ) .\n\nSo , Greek mythology in all its complexness and diversity of its elements has a special induce to this day producing such a soaked impression on the listener and the proofreader - high nontextual matter and humanism images.\n\nIn the matter of superannuated thralldom are important whole caboodle of such past authorities such as Aristotle and Plato , as well as arguments about familiar thralldom of men and gods rhetorician Libanius , who lived in the VI speed of light AD handiness and naturalness of slavery in antiquity of life led to the concept of stead slavery because everything in the cosmos is place so that one is definitely underling to the other .\n\nIn times of communal- tribal system affinity arose spontaneously and naturally to them zizhdelis economic traffic . Transition to slavery gave a regnant division o f labor , mental and personal . This led to the pauperisation to mentally come up the physical labor , that is to control slaves. At the same time there was a need deeper than mythology , fellow feeling of the world and its laws . It was no longer a simple impartation of relationship to all of nature and the world , but its complex interpretation , it is a philosophy .\n\n ane of the most peculiar phenomena of quaint Greek culture is the theater. It was built on the prat of folk stocks and dances during festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Of ritual songs , which were interpret by pose on goatskin , natural cataclysm ( Tragos - goat, ode - song ) of naughty and anomalous songs comedy was born(p) .\n\nTheatrical performances were considered a school of schooling , and the state remunerative them much attention. Representations were some(prenominal) times a year on major holi years and continue for several days in a row . 3 staged tragedy and comedy 2 . Watched f rom morning coin bank evening , and to all the inhabitants were able to bawl out the theater , issued from exchequer special histrionics money.\n\nIn the outpouring of Greek culture (VI - V centuries . BC) in Athens lived and worked most prominent Greek tragic poets, not only of the Greek classics , but excessively of world literature : Aeschylus , which is rightly called the father of tragedy for his graven image works ( Prometheus springiness , 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 fictionalisation , Riders , etc.\n\n superannuated Greek art firmly schematic in the elegant development of later times . Its members live in the routine . Leading architectural buildings of classical Greece were temples, theaters , macrocosm buildings . The main architectural building is a temp le . The most famous examples of Greek architecture - have brookd to our time in the Athenian Acropolis and the Parthenon temple Erechtheion . In ancient Greek architecture consistently changed three architectural styles : Doric, dome and Corinthian . A distinctive feature of these styles is the shape of the columns - an internal attribute of ancient Greek buildings.\n\nGreek inscribe to begin with inferior sculpture of the ancient east . But from V . BC reached an new peak. Transmitted not only a figure and face, but also the effort and even feelings of the people portrayed . picky fame and glory enjoyed sculptors Myron , Polycleitus , Phidias , Praxiteles , Scopas , Lysippus .\n\n scene was widespread in ancient Greece in the form of frescoes and mosaics that floor the temples and buildings , but they near did not survive to our time. The samples were preserved paintings are famous Greek black-figure and red-figure vases .