Posted in Z, tagged belief, cults, gay, Greece, homosexual, myth, mythology, pagan, queer, religion, same-sex, worship, zeus on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Athens, Greece Zeus Temple 2007
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Zeus The son of the Titan Cronus and Titaness Rhea, Zeus is the chief of the second generation Greek gods, usually arrayed with thunderbolts and an eagle.
Zeus had numerous offspring with several different goddesses, the most famous being Aphrodite.
He apparently had amorous relations with his young male cup-bearer, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Achilles, aggression, battle, brad pitt, classical, Greece, greek, greek drama, Greek myth, heel, Homer, Illiad, killing, legend, life, murder, myth, mythology, paris, psychology, stories, struggle, styx, tale, trojan, Troy, violence, warfare on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Achilles Slays Hector
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Achilles The ancient Greek warrior and hero who, in Homer’s Iliad, fought in the Trojan wars.
The son of Peleus and Thetis, at birth Achilles’ mother held him by the heel and dipped him in the fiery river Styx to obtain [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aeneas, classical, dido, history, Homer, myth, mythology, rome, vergil on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Aeneas and Dido
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Aeneas The Trojan hero and son of Anchises and Aphrodite.
In Homer’s Illiad Poseidon prophesizes that Aenas and his descendants will rule the Trojans.
Other writers portray Aeneas as the founder of several Greek centers, such as Delos and Crete.
Aeneas has also been described [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aeneid, ancient, classics, history, latin, literature, myth, mythological, mythology, rome, verse on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Aeneid An epic poem written in Latin by Vergil.
It is casts in mythic verse the journey and adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who in ancient legend founded Rome. » Sibyl
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Posted in A, tagged Aesculapius, ancient history, doctor, dream incubation, dreams, Foucault, Greece, healing, health, history, Homer, Illness, medicine, myth, mythology, pagan, physician, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Villa Borghese Park
- Temple Of Aesculapius
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David Paul Ohmer
Aesculapius Possibly a Greek mortal around 1200 BCE who, like Heracles, became deified.
In Homer’s Illiad he is described as “the blameless physician.”
His cult was centered in Epidaurus and emphasized cure through a prototype of contemporary psychoanalysis.
The poets Hesiod and Pindar speak of Aesculapius as the son of Zeus [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aesir, asgard, balder, gods, loki, messenger, myth, mythology, odin, pagan, scandanavia, scandanavian, teutonic, thor, trickster, vanir, warrior on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
The valkyries walk to battle with their god Odin
Originally uploaded by Ran Yaniv Hartstein
Aesir The earliest race of Teutonic gods, chief of whom was Odin.
The pantheon included Thor, Tiu, Balder, Bragi (inspirer of poetry), Vidar (lord of silence), Hoder (a blind deity who killed Balder), Hermod (sacred messenger), Hoenir, Odnir, Loki (a trickster god) and [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aphrodite, cult, Greece, Greek myth, myth, mythology, pagan, Paganism, temple, worship on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien AphroditeOriginally uploaded by Fotomoe
Aphrodite Greek goddess of beauty, love and fertility.
Worshipped throughout Greece, Aphrodite was said to have been born from sea foam that arose at Paphos in Cyprus from the castration of Uranus by Cronus.
Homer says she is the wife of Hephaestus but also had romantic encounters with Ares, the god of War. [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ancient, apollo, classical, greek, myth, mythology, pagan, religion, rome, temples, worship on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Apollo In Greek mythology Apollo - also called Phoebus - is the twin brother of Artemis, born of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.
He is associated with strength, order, youthfulness, beauty and reason, as opposed to the emotional and sometimes drug-induced frenzies relating to Dionysius.
Apollo’s chief temple and oracle was at Delphi, over which the expression, [...]
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Ariadne In Greek mythology Ariadne is the daughter of King Minos of Crete.
After Theseus had defeated the Minotaur, Ariadne helped him to escape from a labyrinth by giving him a ball of thread that he unrolled while entering and retraced while exiting, thus finding his way out.
Theseus went with Ariadne to Naxos but he didn’t [...]
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Artemis The daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo.
Artemis is the Greek Olympian who parallels the Roman goddess Diana.
Both share an association with the moon. In pre-Hellenic Greece, Asia Minor and Crete Artemis originally was a deity of the earth, the wild and animals.
Before becoming a virgin huntress in Homeric religion, she [...]
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