Zeus (king of gods) Hera (marriage, wife of Zeus) Hestia (hearth) Poseidon (sea) Hades (underworld) Demeter (agriculture)

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Zeus (king of gods) Hera (marriage, wife of Zeus) Hestia (hearth) Poseidon (sea) Hades (underworld) Demeter (agriculture)

Ares (war)Dionysos (wine) Hephaistos (forge) Apollo (sun, music, healing) Artemis (moon, hunting) Athena (wisdom) Aphrodite (love) Hermes (messenger)

If stuff goes wrong… 1. Try sleeping in a temple 2. Consult an oracle (e.g. at Delphi) 3. Consult a magician or a seer (mantis) Not necessarily a priest (hiereus)

Sacrifices: 1. Food and drink 2. Animals, parts only unless: a) Sacrifice to heroes b) Homicide, to appease Erinyes (Furies)

Or resort to… Prayer Supplication/sanctuary

Festivals: Some specific to phratriai or demoi Some city festivals e.g. Panathenaia (summer, Athena Polias) and City Dionysia (late winter/early spring) Acropolis

Eleusinian Mysteries Towards end of summer Public and secret aspects Demeter, goddess of agriculture Persephone, her daughter

Hades, god of the Underworld Zeus, king of the gods Plato (d. 348 BC), Republic

Olympia Olympics (776 BC-at least 261 AD) Zeus Olympos Olympiads Philip II of Macedon (r. 360/ BC) pankration

Victory, and defeat Others attending the games The games and politics

Hesiod (c BC) Farmer, from Askra in Boiotia Claims was made a singer by Muses of Mt Helikon Theogony Works and Days