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Ancient Greek religion

Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices.

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Anu

Anu (𒀭𒀭, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (𒀭), was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Ares

Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) is the Greek god of war and courage.

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Artemis

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.

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Asherah

Asherah (translit; translit; translit; Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩩) was a goddess in ancient Semitic religions.

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Astarte

Astarte (Ἀστάρτη) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Aurora (mythology)

Aurōra is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry.

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Cognate

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.

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Cybele

Cybele (Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük.

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Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth.

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Dumuzid

Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (𒌉𒍣|Dumuzid; italic; Tammūz), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻|Dumuzid sipad) and to the Canaanites as '''Adon''' (Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar).

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East Semitic languages

The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages.

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Eos

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (Ionic and Homeric Greek Ἠώς Ēṓs, Attic Ἕως Héōs, "dawn", or; Aeolic Αὔως Aúōs, Doric Ἀώς Āṓs) is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the night.

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Erinyes

The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Hades

Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

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Hephaestus

Hephaestus (eight spellings; Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes.

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Hera

In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.

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Hermes

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.

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Hestia

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hestia (Ἑστία, meaning "hearth" or "fireside") is the virgin goddess of the hearth and the home.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.

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Indra

Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.

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Kylix

In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (κύλιξ, pl.; also spelled cylix;: kylikes) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.

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List of lunar deities

A lunar deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Near East

The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.

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Nereids

In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (Nērēḯdes;, also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites.

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.

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Proto-Indo-European mythology

Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, speakers of the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European language.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

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Twelve Olympians

relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.

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Ushas

Ushas (Vedic Sanskrit: उषस्,, nominative singular उषाः) is a Vedic goddess of dawn in Hinduism.

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Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert (2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.

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White-ground technique

White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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