CLA 2323 Lecture 2: Sept 21 and 28 lecture notes.CLA2323.partial
31 Jan 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 . In myth, the gods" personalities and major stories. Zeus creates order after the beginning of the world. 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. Today the gods" 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. 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 figure and the brother or father of all other olympians (father, too, to many demigods and heroes).
