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Story not fixed in a definitive version.
The Heroic Age/Bronze Age/before the Trojan War/MyceneanÂ
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
Orally transmitted through song by bards
Eighth century BC
Pandora was given to mortals as a trap, to teach them a lesson through the jar that she opens
Golden age is the start, then the silver age, then bronze, then the heroic age, then the age of iron (this is a timeline of decline)
Herodotus said that it was Homer and Hesiod who made the Greeks conceive of the gods in an anthropomorphic way
11. They come from the myth of Demeter and Persephone. 11. The mysteries were celebrated near Athens (at Eleusis). Mysteries were secret, and initiation involved a symbolic passage from darkness to light.
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Why do you think the ancients represented the gods in human form?
Why do you think there were various versions of tales about the gods?
How different were attitudes to religious worship in the ancient world from today? Think about the different faiths of today and the activities and rituals that surround them.
As you saw on the PowerPoint, not all ancient people believed in the gods in the same ways. What did the Pre-Socratics believe about the gods?