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- 5. The “Greek miracle” expresses the new birth of the world with the “awakening of Greece.” It refers to a revolution in thought that humanized the world. _______ became the center of the universe and the most important entity in it.
- 6. The ancient Greeks were rational, orderly and logical. There was no place for illogically shaped gods. The gods were considered part of reality, and the ancient Greeks were preoccupied with the _________.
- 9. However, some myths are not explanations; they are tales of ___________.
- 12. Wrote Persians (celebrates the victory of the Greeks over the Persians)
- 13. “Greek mythology begins with Homer, generally believed to be” around ________BC.
- 15. Wrote Iliad and the Odyssey
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- 1. “The first written record of Greece” is the ___________.
- 2. Things that were terrifying, irrational or unknown had no place in classical mythology. _______, which was so powerful in the world before and after the classical era, was almost non-existent.
- 3. Myths are early ______, the result of humans’ first attempt at understanding and explaining what they saw around them.
- 4. Mythology mainly comprises stories of gods and goddesses; however, a myth has nothing to do with _______.
- 7. Belief in astrology is also absent from classical Greece, even though there are many astrological references. Additionally, ghosts do not appear, and the ancient Greeks were not afraid of the dead. The ancient Greeks were concerned with the living and human beauty. The early Greeks transformed a world of __________ into a world full of beauty.
- 8. Wrote Works and Days, Theogeny
- 10. Wrote Odes written in honor of victors in games, mythological allusions
- 11. A revolutionary idea was that the gods were in the image of _________.
- 14. Greek gods were ______. They banqueted and caroused; they became angry and jealous.