Tag Archives: Ancient Greek Religion

The Top 8 Greatest Inventions of the Mycenaeans

By Ed Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom This month’s Classical Wisdom Litterae Issue is dedicated to the Mycenaeans! Get a subscription and learn more about these fascinating Bronze Age people HERE. Who were they? The Mycenaeans are often regarded as the first Greeks. They were the descendants of the first Neolithic farmers who settled in

Written on August 3, 2021 at 3:58 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: Culture, History, Homer, Language, Literature

Tags: Ancient Greek Religion, Greco-Persian war, Homer, Linear B, Minoans, Mycenaeans

A Visit To The Apollo Temple at Didyma, Hidden Gem of the Aegean

Written by Lydia Serrant, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom In ancient times, Turkey’s Didyma was not a city of trade or agriculture but a place of worship. Located on the country’s western coast, Didim — as it is now called — is home to the magnificent and ancient Apollo Temple. While it is considered a lesser-known

Written on June 30, 2021 at 7:48 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Architecture

Tags: Ancient Greek Architecture, Ancient Greek Religion, Apollo, Temple of Apollo, Turkey

The Mysterious Eleusinian Mysteries: Part 2

Written by Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Part 1 of this series can be found here. From the deep recesses of the Archaic era to enlightened Imperial Rome, the list of initiates into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a popular cult honoring the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, reads like a who’s who of the Classical era.

Written on June 25, 2021 at 5:22 am, by Mary Naples

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Categories: Traditions

Tags: Ancient Greek Religion, Demeter, Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone, Religion

Alexander of Abonoteichus: Charlatan and False Prophet

Written by Ed Whalen, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom We think of Graeco-Roman world as a fairly rational, even secular. However, classical societies were extremely superstitious. In the ancient world, people used religion and magic to help them to cope with what, for them, could be an unpredictable and brutal world. This led to the rise

Written on February 16, 2021 at 10:11 am, by Whelan

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Categories: Leaders

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek culture, Ancient Greek Religion, Marcus Aurelius

The Mysteries of The Orphics

By John Mancini, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Of the many belief systems circulating in archaic Greece, Orphism was perhaps the most significant. The state-sanctioned religion of Hellenism may have intermingled with all aspects of daily life, but archaic Greece was also a mixture of superstitious magic and philosophical cults. There were rational beliefs such as

Written on June 24, 2019 at 9:16 am, by John

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Categories: Traditions

Tags: Ancient Greek Religion, cult, Dionysus, orpheus, Orphism

The Bible of Ancient Greece

By Ben Potter Much time and care is taken to bring the ancients to life; to imbue modern society with the idea that they were just like us in all their goodness and evil, their intoxication and sobriety, their love and lust, as well as their hate and chastity. To downplay this would be both

Written on May 28, 2014 at 6:27 pm, by plato

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Categories: Literature

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek Religion, Hesiod, Theogony