... male gods like Zeus and Apollo, although the Mycenaean's continued to worship the Mountain Mother at sanctuaries in the mountains. We get our first detailed descriptions of the Greek deities in these epic tales. Zeus and Hera are at the apex of the Pantheon, followed by Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, and others, but as in the Near East when their mythology relates the repossession of female deities by male deities ... Greek society, and will impact subsequent civilizations as they succumb to Greek ideas. Women's experience with misogyny throughout the centuries has ...

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