... prayed to were different. Sparta worshiped many gods, but none was more important than Athena, (Classical World). In Greece each city-state worshiped a specific god or goddess who they gave the most attention to. For Sparta, it was Athena. Persia was polytheistic, but unlike Greece, they did not worship a specific god or goddess the most. The Persian state religion was a specific sect of Polytheism ... : Zoroastrian. The importance of religion within society was very different from each other. Religion, while important in Sparta, had more to do with 2 the temples that were built, than th...

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... and hasn't heard anything from Odysseus since then. - Nestor then tells Telemachus that his son Pisitratus will accompanied him to Sparta the next day. - Athena reveals her identity, becoming an eagle. She stays behind in Pylos guarding the ships. SECTION 4 - They arrive to Sparta, were the king and queen ... Odysseus isn't actually dead so the thing don't actually belong to Penelope. CHARACTERS Odysseus - The protagonist of the Odyssey. Odysseus fought among the other Greek heroes at Troy and now struggles to return to his kingdom in Ithaca. Odysseus is the husband of Penelope and the fa...

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... be factually true, they are often symbolically true as well as sociologically true. Religion can be defined as "an acknowledgement of an obligation to a god or gods; a practical piety; devotion; any system of faith and worship. It may be based or explained by myth but myth and religion are ... , since that is what most people in today's society are most familiar with. The belief in Jesus Christ being the son of the one God is our religion. The Bible is our set of stories about Jesus, or our myths about this religion. To begin to look at the ... and goddesses were Panhellenic, that is al...

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... as a polis, and each polis functioned as an independent country, with its own laws and government. Despite the unwillingness and inability of the Greek city-states to unite, the Greeks were able to leave a long-lasting mark on western civilization. The two principle city states in Greece ... time and effort into making their city look as such. They erected a particularly spectacular temple known as the Parthenon , in honor of the goddess Athena, after whom the city was named for. Although a simple structure, the Parthenon is extremely beautiful due to its graceful proportions of width, ...

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... as a polis, and each polis functioned as an independent country, with its own laws and government. Despite the unwillingness and inability of the Greek city-states to unite, the Greeks were able to leave a long-lasting mark on western civilization. The two principle city states in Greece ... time and effort into making their city look as such. They erected a particularly spectacular temple known as the Parthenon , in honor of the goddess Athena, after whom the city was named for. Although a simple structure, the Parthenon is extremely beautiful due to its graceful proportions of width, ...

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• Grade Level: High School