... if the information was just marked on a piece of clay. At first writing consisted of pictures of the objects they represented, but the characters soon became more abstract and represented sounds as well as objects. Scribes wrote the characters into wet clay tablets, which became durable when dried. The clay tablets were first used to track inventories, contracts, and other business needs ... . V. A. 1. The epic poems of Homer tell us most of what we know about the era of 1200-800 bc. The Iliad tells how the Greeks besieged and destroyed Troy. The Odyssey tells what happened after the Tro...

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... manifestations. Not only do all gods exhibit both good and evil qualities but they also possess both ouranic (heavenly) and chthonic (underworld) characters, the latter being more often associated with evil (Russell 1977, 123). Brenk notes that in Homer's Odyssey, "the daimon acts very much like a god, except that it tends to be unidentifiable and evil" (Brenk 1986, 2074). The main question ... ...

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... manifestations. Not only do all gods exhibit both good and evil qualities but they also possess both ouranic (heavenly) and chthonic (underworld) characters, the latter being more often associated with evil (Russell 1977, 123). Brenk notes that in Homer's Odyssey, "the daimon acts very much like a god, except that it tends to be unidentifiable and evil" (Brenk 1986, 2074). The main question ... ...

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