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Mythographers have their idiosyncrasies, but they usually share a general nationality. Not in the case of Helen! Think again: Wether abduced or consenting, she was lost to her husband, the Spartan or "Mycenean" Menelaos, because of the Trojan Paris. Did Menelaos instigate a war to get her back...

I wish this Community would attract teachers and other professionals to make cultural contributions.

WG is a great website to discuss Greek places to travel to as well as traditions, history, and mythology. However, I think it would be a great tool for ANYbody and for HS students to learn about Greeks ancient and modern if we had a literature forum with specific references to and info about...

Recently I learned that some modern Greeks tried to revive some ancient Gr. religion, e.g., the 2005 ELLINAIS [q.vide in WIKIPEDIA]. Maybe some of you know more about it: Do the members actually believe in some ancient gods, or are they lovers and commemorators of Hellenismos? // I love my...

There is no single story; the contradictory stories imply agnosticism. So, I ask myself, was there ever a Helen [related to the historical war] ? According to one myth, Helen was the daughter of Zeus. I infer that if he is mythic in nature so is she. Why a Helen? //... to EXPLAIN the...

they believed in deities for some reasons! they, i think, were not irrational believers.... i asked these questions to hear from contemporary Greek philosophers/thinkers -- you and you [reader]

I like the phrase, "... and their ways of seeing the world". Lately I have been considering the phrasing of the nature of their gods according to their mindset/perspective/frame-of-mind, in comparison to other mindsets. Result: A Greek myth-maker typically looked at a relationship between a...

The question whether they exist or not is a philosophical question , which applies a fortiori [all the more] to the belief in one GOD, whether it is called ZEUS or simply THEOS. Update: Theodosius banished polytheism and, unwittingly, any theism. The Christian iconoclasts did the same. Why...

I have already replied...... Sorry again; your perspective does not prove or disprove the existence of gods,

My outlook in brief: Demeter is the grain-vegetation goddess. In the vegetable kingdom, reproduction is asexual -- by seeds/grains or spores. Demeter's young one [korE/kora/Cora] was abducted by Hades. Hence her grief etc. ... Zeus compromise: she is to share parts of the year with him and with...

xmelissa, it's not just you; it's a very old tradition to SPEAK in this manner: the god OF love, the father OF the Olympians, etc. Thus it seems that love and the god are distinct. No, EROS = love, but as personified, it is called a god. As a drive, Socrates called it a Daimon. Chronos =...

or that they exist

To add: Even though Plato was not a physicist, in his Symposium he dealt with human love in the context of Love/Eros as the cosmic principle of attraction, which was recognized by the elementarists [Empedocles etc.].

Well, yes and no.... IF a male seeks his other half, eros is a driving force. This is the inevitable concept of it, which has been called also LOVE. I am reminded of the words in La Traviata: ...di quell'AMOR ch'e` palpito dell'universo intero: ...of that LOVE which is the palpitation...

All of you, Above Writers, do well in pointing out that, for example, Letters in the NT were addressed to newly formed Xian communities/churches [Ephesus, Corinth, etc.], but unfortunately did not refer to sources about the other half of the organized religion, namely the liturgy -- e.g., the...

thank for posting this URL, which leads to "related posts", including the one about Nikos Kazantzakis. Of course, I have seen Zorba the Greek ..... and cherished his THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. [many years ago, my book was borrowed and never returned]

Going from the Age of Myths to the Age of Reason: Plato sees that eros is a man's DESIRE for the other half -- obviously referring to the ancient myth that "Anthropos" [grammatically either masculine of feminine -- ho/hE -- in classical Greek] was split into two parts. Sorry, this myth has to be...

It is the dream of every nation to have its stolen artifacts returned, but consider these days when countries like Greece, Italy, etc., are being occupied by foreign hoodlums who are bent on destroying their artistic heritage! Artifacts in foreign museums are well kept and, I suppose, are best...

Sorry to have to say this. The Greek gods were conceived long before their artistic representations, but no proof of this. The conceivers or imaginers of the gods did NOT have geo. knowledge or maps such as you have. Your research was pointless.

Good suggestions... On this occasion, I searched "the cult of Athena". A good read: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/74 namely: "The Women of Athena's Cult"