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| | Greek (and some Roman) Deities |
 | | Greek god of the underworld and judge of the dead. | | | Greek god of the heavens or of the sky. | | | Greek river god of one of the five rivers of Hades. |
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http://www.geocities.com/gothwitches/grecogods.html
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| | Unit 1 |
| | The sôma of the dead hero was considered to be a talisman of fertility and prosperity to the community that worshipped the hero. | | | The sacred space assigned the hero in hero-cult could be coextensive with the sacred space assigned to the god who was considered the hero's divine antagonist. | | | This epic image of the just king as an exponent of dikê, standing in his blooming garden, corresponds to the religious image of the hero in hero-cult, "planted" in the local "mother earth" as a talisman of fertility and prosperity for the community that worships him or her. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chs/HCJ/unit1.html
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| | Thrice-Hero |
| | The cult of this hero was performed to honor some important deceased person, who was worshipped as a half-god (or demi-god). | | | There was a supposition that this worshipping started from the Mycenaean cult of dead and from there that it came directly into the Archaic Greek religion (Nilsson). | | | It means, that Trice-Hero was worshipped during the Mycenaean time as a local deity in Pylos and offerings were brought to his honor. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/thrice-hero.html
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| | Study Guide 9: Heroes |
| | Indeed, he is worshipped as a god as well as a hero. | | | It is not exactly ancestor worship (or a cult of the dead per se) nor ruler worship (though that comes in during the Hellenistic and Roman periods {late 4 cent. | | | Asclepius is another special case: he begins as a local hero, his worship becomes more widespread (note the importation of him into Attica with Sophocles Dexion p.65 and 78) and he becomes a god. |
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http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gretaham/teaching/religions/sg9.htm
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| | The Death Cult of Lydia |
| | She could hear the shuffle of the Greek’s feet in the sand, there- she was to the left. | | | She was ready to turn on her heels, to grab for a hip throw, for surely the Greek hero would not stand still like a frightened girl. | | | Truly, even now, when she was at the height of her prowess, when the strength of her thews was unmatched among the ten thousand spears, when no woman could best her on the grappling ground, Musu would never have tried such a move. |
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http://azarnes.com/Lydia3.html
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| | Chapter 18 |
| | I propose, then, that the traditional themes of antagonism between god and hero do not preclude a beneficent aspect on the god's part. | | | [2] The inscription also specifies that the primary gods worshiped within the frame of this hero cult are the Muses--and Apollo as their leader. | | | Note the use of katharma 'purification, refuse of purification' in the sense of 'outcast' when it is applied to Aesop as a term of insult by the other characters in the Life tradition (e.g., Vitae G+W 31); cf. |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/nagy/BofATL/chapter18.html
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| | Greek Religion: CULT OF ATHENA |
| | It is named after [the mythical hero] Itonios the son of Amphiktyon, and here the Boiotians gather for their general assembly. | | | The next set of cult titles were named for the founders (real or mythical) of certain temples and shrines of the goddess. | | | But when he was detected, Agesila¸s, his father, helped to pursue him to the temple of Athena Khalkioikos (of the Brazen House); the father walled up the doors of the shrine with bricks and killed his son by starvation. |
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http://www.theoi.com/Cult/AthenaCult.html
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| | The earlier religious concept is that the hero exercises an influence from his grave. | | | For hero is the name given to men who by their wisdom and courage are worthy of heaven" | | | In China it is despised, in India the warriors constitute the second highest caste, and the ancient heroic epic is revised by the Brahmans. |
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http://www.bu.edu/english/levine/curtius.htm
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| | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Greek Hero Revisited |
| | But this makes sense; "super powers", insofar as Greek heroes had them, were a product of their divine ancestry, but divine ancestry had disruptive implications for their birth 'families', which affected the pattern in predictable ways and so produce a number of the other steps in Raglan's "heroic pattern". | | | As Greek, it establishes the two women, both witches, as adepts in the use of ancient arcana. | | | Buffy was pursued by a demon who followed her and tried to kill her and take her place. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/~lbowman/buffy/buffythehero.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Greek Myths |
| | One sure sign of mythic quality is an intermixing of the human and the divine, as in the case of Achilles of the Iliad, who is a son of a mortal man and an immortal nymph, daughter of Zeus, Thetis. | | | Through etymology and historical analysis, Graves contends that Greek mythology is a compilation of two distinct religious practices that were later merged. | | | If you spend a lot of time teaching the Dead Greeks, this book will be a very valuable and often used addition to your library. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807600547?v=glance
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| | Heroes-pt 1 |
| | Hero originally RELIGIOUS concept: worship of distinguished/mythical ancestors. | | | Main activity at hero cult = feast of the living in honor of and in the company of the hero | | | Agamemnon: contrast with Iliadic glory: former warlord now sacrificial ox (411). |
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http://www.utexas.edu/courses/bigmyth303/Outline12-heroes1.html
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| | The Death Cult of Lydia |
| | It seems she is not quite herself, and there is a small matter of control that needs to be tested, you understand, and with the natural abilities of the person in question, well, it seems like a lot to ask, but she was sure that you might be the one. | | | It was amazing to Musu, the love that Gabrielle showed in every glance, every gesture, when she was near her hero. | | | That was odd, the Greek never removed them. |
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http://azarnes.com/Lydia2.html
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| | Antonaccio's Vita |
| | Colonization and Acculturation, Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, I. Malkin, ed. | | | Placing the Past: the Bronze Age in the Cultic Topography of Early Greece, in Placing the Gods : Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece, S. Alcock, R. | | | in conference Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, K. Lomas, organizer, University of Newcastle, July 1999; SUNY Buffalo, October 2000 |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/carlacv.html
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| | Celtic Hero. |
| | 's day was marked at top of a hill while in Gallia Mercury's cult was connected to high places, is similar place where Arverns have established one of the greatest statues of this god in the ancient world. | | | The Greek Cerberus belonged to Hades, the lord of the underground world. | | | As against other Greek heroes, this character not only the person, but also the god, he is between two worlds. |
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http://www.geocities.com/celtic_gods1/myth2.htm
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| | Greek Mythology Hero Heracles |
| | He eventually had a fair sized cult that worshiped him as a god. | | | That he willing did severe penance shows a fundamental sense of justice. | | | Indeed, many of the comic Greek playwrights used him this way. |
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http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/BDodge/scaffold/GG/heracles.html
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98022262 |
| | Gregory Nagy's book is brilliant, original, and filled with powerful, central, and useful insights. | | | Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. | | | The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new questions about what could be known or conjectured about Greek heroes. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu052/98022262.html
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| | ARCHAEOLOGY books from Coronet |
| | Cults, Myths, Oracles, and Politics in Ancient Greece | | | Ancient Greek Cult Practice from the Archaeological Evidence | | | Survey of Greek and Latin Inscriptions on Stone in Swedish Collections |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/arch.html
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| | Google Search: greek_hero_cult |
| | Hero cult was one of the most distinctive features of ancient | | | In Homeric Greek, heroes (cognate with Latin vir and English... | | | '''Hero cult'''; was one of the most distinctive features of |
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http://greek_hero_cult.networklive.org
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| | Table of contents for Archilochos heros |
| | Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding. | | | Table of contents for Archilochos heros : the hero cult of poets in the Greek polis / Diskin Clay. | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004022716.html
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