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You are talking about the religion of the ancient Greeks; they were the deitites of ancient Greece.
The Ancient Greeks did not celebrate Christmas. Christmas is the commemoration of the Birth of Jesus and, as Jesus had not been born in Ancient Greek times, it was celebrated. Christianity had not been founded at this time.
They are the religion of the ancient Greeks.
Ancient Greece influenced much of the modern world and other civilizations of the time. The Roman Empire would have a very different religion without the Ancient Greeks.
Greek Mythology, also called Classical Mythology is the ancient religion of the ancient Greeks: as reported and reduced by Greek poets of old.
You are talking about the religion of the ancient Greeks; they were the deitites of ancient Greece.
The Ancient Greeks did not celebrate Christmas. Christmas is the commemoration of the Birth of Jesus and, as Jesus had not been born in Ancient Greek times, it was celebrated. Christianity had not been founded at this time.
They were the religion of the ancient Greeks.
The Greeks were polytheistic. They believe in many gods.
the ancient Romans and Greeks Worshiped a variety of Gods and goddesses.
Polytheistic = having many gods.
The many types of gods in there older religion
One is a religion, the other is not. Have fun!
Ancient Greek religion was polytheistic. There were 12 main deities which made up the pantheon. These gods were recognized by the ancient Greeks but the gods were recognized in different ways by a wide variety of Greeks.
Greeks followed a set of rituals and beliefs which together may be referred to as the Ancient Greek religion. While philosophies like Platoism and Stoicism also originated within the Ancient Greek religion, the ancient Greeks generally believed in the Greek Pantheon (which contains deities such as Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, Hestia and Hera ). The religion itself is believed to have originated from Mycenaean religion of Bronze Age Greece, which held Poseidon as the chief god (as opposed to Zeus of Ancient Greece). The Ancient Greek religion later influenced much of the theology of Ancient Rome.
At Greeks time, it was not mythology but now it is. For the ancient Greeks, it was their religion, now it is a collection of interesting stories.
It was a structure built to house the cult image in the religion of Ancient Greece.