CLA 2323 Lecture 3: CLA2323 X May 10 lecture notes
24 May 2017
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68 85 for discussions of the individual major gods. Aspects of their real-life worship in ancient greece: their attributes . The goddess aphrodite and the near eastern connection. Below are the 12 olympian gods/goddesses, along with (a) any alternative greek name spellings and (b) their eventual roman names. For cla2323, you don"t have to know the roman names: they are included here just for clarity. Roman names are in some cases more familiar to us than the greek ones. The following were the olympians because they were imagined as dwelling atop real-life mt. Olympus [olympos] or in a heaven above olympus. In addition, the following were not counted as olympians, in some cases because they were imagined as dwelling elsewhere than on mt. Zeus is head of the family: he is the authority igure and the brother or father of all other olympians (father, too, to many demigods and heroes). His wife and sister is hera; their children include the.
