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Greek religion
Greek religion religious beliefs and practices of the ancient inhabitants of the region of Greece. Origins Although its exact origins are lost in time, Greek religion is thought to date from about the period of the Aryan invasions of the 2d millennium BC Those invaders encountered two o... Read more
religion
religion a system of thought, feeling, and action that is shared by a group and that gives the members an object of devotion; a code of behavior by which individuals may judge the personal and social consequences of their actions; and a frame of reference by which individuals may relate to their gr... Read more
Roman religion
Roman religion the religious beliefs and practices of the people of ancient Rome. The spirits were held in awe and were placated with offerings and prayers. Origins and Development The indigenous Italic religion, which was the nucleus of the religion of ancient Rome, was essentially animi... Read more
ancient Greek literature
ancient Greek literature the writings of the ancient Greeks. The Greek Isles are recognized as the birthplace of Western intellectual life. Early Writings The earliest extant European literary works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both written in ancient Greek probably before 700 BC, a... Read more
Tethys
Tethys in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan, daughter of Gaea and Uranus. She was the wife of the seagod Oceanus and the mother of the Oceanids. ... Read more
Erebus
Erebus , in Greek religion and mythology, personification of darkness. According to Hesiod, Erebus sprang from Chaos and was the father of Day. His name was sometimes used for Hades. ... Read more
Nemesis
Nemesis , in Greek religion and mythology, personification of the gods' retribution for violation of sacred law; the avenger. Sometimes she was said to be the goddess of good and ill fortune. ... Read more
Pontus
Pontus , in Greek religion and mythology, sea god. He was the son of Gaea and by her the father of Ceto, Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcus, and Eurybia. ... Read more
Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison 1850-1928, English classical scholar. She applied archaeological discoveries in the interpretation of Greek religion. Her works include Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903), Themis (1912), Ancient Art and Ritual (1913), and Epilegomena to the Study of Greek R... Read more
Astraea
Astraea , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of justice; daughter of Zeus and Themis. Because of the wickedness of man, she withdrew from the earth at the end of the Golden Age and was placed among the stars as the constellation Virgo. ... Read more

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Greek religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Greek religion religious beliefs and practices...of the match. The classical Greek pantheon was peopled with gods...clear picture of the early Greek religion as it evolved from...Asian elements. This phase of Greek religion is called Homeric...the future to humanity. The ...
Greeks
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Greeks PRONUNCIATION: GREECKS...10 million LANGUAGE: Greek RELIGION: Eastern Orthodox Church...wine. 5 • RELIGION The Eastern Orthodox...plays a central role in Greek life. During the 400...main force uniting the Greek people. Greek history...Over 97 percent of ...
Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS. Religion shaped both the use...Herodotus distinguished Greek sacrifice from Persian...therefore culture (in Greek thought), to mortals. Greeks and Romans slaughtered...
religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...In a third class of religion—usually heavily...fertility Ishtar, the Greek sea-god Poseidon...called the "higher religions." Theologians and philosophers of religion agree that these religions embody a principle of...
Greek Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...linguistically homogeneous nation speaks Greek, and one percent, Turkish...Orthodox church is the dominant religion; only about 1.5 percent...percentage is Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, or Jewish. Traditionally, Greeks referred to themselves as...as "Hellas." The word "Greek" comes from ...
Greek Cypriots
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Cyprus POPULATION: 736,636 LANGUAGE: Greek; Turkish; English RELIGION: Greek Orthodox; Islam; Maronitism; Armenian...resembles ancient Greek more than does modern Greek. For example, Greeks from mainland Greece say ti kanete? for...
Greek Mystery Schools
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...worshipped by the Greeks most often in...addition to the state religion into which every Greek belonged automatically...the "mystery religions," which required...official state religion, but was considered...schools of the Greeks centered around...important mystery religions ...
ancient Greek literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ancient Greek literature the writings of the ancient Greeks. The Greek Isles are recognized as the birthplace...turn, and much of the writing of the Greek Fathers of the Church is eloquent. Religion dominated the literature of the Byzantine...
Science and Religion, Research in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...different sciences and different religions. As argued by Willem B. Drees in Religion, Science, and Naturalism (1996), religions have different aspects, which...consideration, and the phenomenon of religion is itself a proper object...2000)? Neither Ancient Greek culture, nor the "Golden...
Religion and Values, Origins of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...always translating Hebrew and Greek economic terms referring to...science deals with causes, religion with values. That is an overstatement...study of causes in nature; religion is a life-orienting inquiry...Matter gives birth to spirit. Religion valuing abundant life Religions arise to ...

Dictionary entries related to "Greek religion"

Greek religion
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Greek religion The religion of the ancient Greek world. It was polytheistic, involving the worship of several gods and goddesses. The most important deities were the sky-god Zeus (ruler of Olympus), his wife Hera (goddess of marriage...
theology of religions
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church theology of religions. The interpretation of...operative for salvation through religions other than Christianity...a positive view of other religions based on the doctrine of...Divine Logos , manifest in Greek religions, ancient Judaism...
Roman religion
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Roman religion The religion of the Roman republic and empire. In its developed form it came to have much in common with GREEK RELIGION , although it contained elements of Etruscan and other native Italian...
religion
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible religion In general, a complex of beliefs...in Acts 26: 5, but the same Greek noun is also used in Col. 2...1 Tim. 3: 16 (‘religion’, NRSV) is denoted by a different Greek word. Two sorts of ‘...
Religion: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...modern India; although "religion" is not a traditional concept...called "Hinduism" as their "religion" — although, historically...speaking, that which world religions textbooks now call "Hinduism...x2014; common, or koine Greek — also predated...2000s are derived the word ...
Greek
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...in an uneducated vernacular Greek, frequently ungrammatical...When Christianity became the religion of the Empire, Christians shared the education of the Greek world. A deliberate cultivation...of style coloured patristic Greek, especially the works of John...
Clement of Alexandria
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...x2018;Exhortation to the Greeks’; the Paedagogus...charge that Christianity is a religion for the ignorant. He treads...intellectual pretensions and a religion of simple faith, seeing in...of the OT Scriptures and of Greek philosophy. He depicts the...the error and immorality of ...
Pythagoreanism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...historical Pythagoras was born on the Greek island of Samos circa 570 b.c...women, and was influenced by the Greek mystery religion of Orphism, which taught reincarnation...in experimental terms, ancient Greek science was mathematical; and while...
Proclus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...broad interest in all products of Greek culture, in religion, literature, science, and philosophy...information regarding this last stage of Greek culture; and because of their...embody an impressive restatement of Greek rationalism in its last confrontation...
Pasche, Francis Léopold Philippe (1910-1996)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...In 1959 he married Maria Cl é opas, a Greek woman, with whom he had two sons, Alexandre and...philosophical nature also led him to take an interest in Greek mythology and in the religions of the book. Mich È le Bertrand See also...

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Ancient Greek Religion.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Ancient Greek Religion. By Jon D. Mikalson...therefore, Ancient Greek Religion is a primer written along...exceptions, especially as religion is an extremely conservative...classical culture, Greek religion is rooted in pre-Greek institutions, Minoan cult, and the ...
Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 10/1/2008; 618 words ; ...Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity...become the Judeo-Christian religions of the western world. Christianity...Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity...how it differed from the Greeks, and relationship of the...Animal ...
A companion to Greek religion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 420 words ; 9781405120548 A companion to Greek religion. Ed. by Daniel Ogden. Blackwell...archaeologists discuss various aspects of Greek religion during the archaic, classical...and magic; and intersections of Greek religion with literature, philosophy...
Greek religion and culture, the Bible, and the ancient Near East.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 450 words ; 9789004164734 Greek religion and culture, the Bible, and the ancient...traditions into ancient Greece, uses Greek evidence to elucidate biblical stories...and the Near East and the influence of Greek culture on Hellenistic Judaism and emerging...
PARISHIONERS SUE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/7/2004; 700+ words ; Byline: KEVIN ECKSTROM Religion News Service Lay activists in the Greek Orthodox Church filed suit in New York this week, accusing church leaders of imposing a harsh new constitution that ignores the...
Greek East and Latin West (religion/history).(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 3/1/2008; ; 488 words ; Greek East and Latin West (religion/history) Rev. Dr. Andrew Louth...Russian Orthodox priest Andrew Louth, Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD...Manzikert in 1071. Examining the "Greek East" and "Latin West" branches...
READING THE BIBLE IN GREEK ENLIGHTENS WORK.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/24/1999; 700+ words ; ...its most profound form, go back to the Greek language in which it was first penned...language. ``Reading it in its original Greek is like seeing the world in color...began teaching a four-month series on the Greek New Testament for members of his congregation...
ENVIRONMENT-RELIGION: GREEK SOAP OPERA ON HIGH SEAS AMAZES GREENS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 10/2/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Take a large helping of Greek politics, a healthy dose of religion, assorted stories about dying...the cruise ship Preveli. The Greek Orthodox Church hired the Preveli...and religious thinkers to the Greek island of Patmos to compare...
Young voices in tune with church choir; Scholarship program helps attract new members to St. Sophia Greek Orthodox group.(Religion)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/7/2006; 655 words ; ...bring young people back to the St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church youth choir, membership...over a decade. To maintain and cultivate Greek culture, Serras and several other members...pride among young churchgoers in their Greek heritage and language, Serras said. These...
LAY GROUP ASKS WIDER ROLE IN GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH.(Religion)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/7/1990; 700+ words ; ...receptions, speeches, awards, concerts, dinners and other social events usually characterize national conventions of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas. But this time, something different is in the offing, and it may jar the customarily graceful...