what is the difference in religion between classical athens and roman republic?
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The Romans basically took their gods from the Greeks, by way of the Etruscans.  The names are different but the stories are pretty similar.
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Time to crack open the history books there...\n\nWhen the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion, they made it illegal to participate in any other religion (to control the population...that message of "render unto Ceaser..."). When new areas were conquered, the leaders, both secular and religious, were eliminated by conversion...accepting Christianity and the dominion of the Roman Empire, or dying. In order to control the conquered people, the old faiths were made illegal. \n\nNow, add in mysogeny. Males sought to control and enslave women. A woman who knew herbology and had a healing hand was a threat to male doctors' practice, or who was 'wise' was a threat to the role of the priests as givers of moral rules and advice, etc. Many of the old faiths were matriarchal, as well, and the knowledge of wise decisions, of herbology/medicine, etc. were passed woman-to-woman.\n\nWicca stems from European nature worship prior to the controls placed there by patriarchal Christianity introduced during martial conquests by the Romans (and their splinter kingdoms after the fall of the empire).\n\nAdd in the mistranslation of "do not suffer a poisoner to live" (in the Hebrew) with "do not suffer a witch to live" (that tie-in to herbology, again)...\n\nSo, modern Wiccans tap deep-rooted generational fears by Christians raised in the ancient prejudice against the "old ways." Part of it is the unfortunate choice of self-naming modern celebrants of ancient pre-Christian pantheons/nature awareness to call themselves witches.\n\nGood luck on your report!
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The Ancient Olympics were held in Greece up to the 1st century BC when the Romans banned them. They were held to celebrate Zeus and the Greek Gods and during the Games, an Olympic truce was established. As to what was in those Games, everything from running, to wrestling, to chariot racing
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There is no correspondence between the Greek/Roman pantheon and the Tarot.\n\nThey are totally seperate traditions seperated by thousands of years.
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Sparta was a military state while Athens was a democracy.  Athenian women were forced to stay indoors all the time and were controlled by men, whereas Spartan women led a much freer existence.\n\nThese links should do it for you.  Good luck with it.
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Two of the most meticulous record keepers of Ancient Times were the Romans and the Jews, and as you rightly point out, the events recorded in the Bible somehow seemed to escape their notice.  Pontius Pilate's court records still exist, and there is no mention of the trial of Jesus or of the supposed custom of allowing the crowd to free a prisoner.  It is a tradition among the Egyptian Coptic's that their Church was founded by the Apostle Mark, in 42 ad, certainly the first major Christian Chatecal School was in Alexandria, but not until 190, so there could have been several generations worth of revisions.  Hadn't heard that one about about the Sun metaphor, Jesus didn't even get a nimbus in religious art until the 5th century, and then it was part of political deal the Emperor was cutting, The three main religions in Rome at the time were Christianity, the scribes and record keepers, Mithra ism, the army, and Sol Invites (the Unconquerable Sun), the wealthy landowners.  He couldn't afford to make any of them mad, so he declared Mithra and Jesus were two names for the same being, and that YHWH was another name for Sol Invictus.  That is why the rays of the Sun became a Christian symbol of holiness.  The Bible, in it's current form, only dates back to the Vulgate, which was completed in 405.  Personally, I think we should go back to traditional values, this new fangled Christianity stuff just ain't working out.
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Tons. I am referring to Classical China, here, by the way.\n\nMesopotamia tended to have multiple and very seperate civilizations. These included the Assyrians, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, etc. Generally, new civillizations would come along and evict the other by force. Like the Babylonians started their empire after they kicked out the Sumerians.\n\nStill they had the same culture and religion mostly, so they are sometimes referred to as ancient mesopotamia. \n\nChina had more of an organized empire, and over time it built up extensive beauracracies to control the empire. At first it's central government was too weak (Zhao Dynasty), then too strong (Qin) and then just about right (Han). Still , Classical China was eventually conquered.\n\nMesopotamia mainly was slightly less advanced (they came before) and their government was a kingdom, while china had an Empire with the Mandate of Heaven. That is, the emperor claimed he was a god.
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Nope, they were polytheist and thus believed in several divinities \n\nIn some ways Roman religion is a lot like Greek religion, but in other ways it is very different. Like the Greeks, the Romans thought that there were many gods, and that these gods each controlled different parts of the world: storms, the ocean, marriage, blacksmithing, and so forth.\n\nThe Romans were particularly interested in power, and much less interested in balance than the Greeks.\n\nThe chief of the gods, for the Romans, was Jupiter. His name is related to the name of the Greek god Zeus, and Jupiter is similar to Zeus in many ways. They are both sky gods who throw lightning bolts when they are angry. \n\nHope this helps
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First of all you need to remember that the Byzantine Empire was once part of the Roman Empire.  The BE was considered eastern or Oriental, with its capital in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) whereas the RE is almost the epitome of Western (since it influenced all of Western Europe).  The BE empire was also much later, since it ended in 1453 whereas Rome was sacked in 476.  There are a whole host of other differences, it really depends if you're talking about the period of both  Western & Eastern (Byzantine) empires, of if you're looking at the full historical sweep of each empire
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All of the Greek City States maintained political, cultural, religious, comercial, and linguistic ties with the cities that founded them, and all were distinctly Greek.  During the time no one would confuse Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, etc... with Persia, the Northern Germanic peoples, the people from Russia, or others and that is why it is unified under the title of Greek Civilization.  \nHope that helps clarify it for you.
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Roman Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity.\n\nArguably, a religion *is* a way to come to God.
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The Byzantine empire *was* the Roman empire, but it grew different over time.\n\n* After Justinian, the empire became more Greek than Latin, especially by language.\n\n* The Byzantine army was much more centered towards cavalry and archers, than the Roman army, which was based around the legionary heavy infantry.\n\n* The Byzantine empire had more religious turmoil than the Roman empire, especially as time went on. Emperors regularly intervened in religious matters, and when portions of the empire were conquered, religious minorities (or Christians who didn't have the same views as the Empire) generally were accepting of the invaders, since the Islamic invaders didn't meddle in their religious affairs.
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nationality = nation. Since Jesus was born under the rule of Rome, he would be a roman, sort of. I am not sure about the status of people born outside of Rome, but under Roman rule. I dont know if they were automatically considered citizens or not. interesting question...
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Yes, only this time it will be Jews &christians .It's Rome vs. Judah,Judah vs.Rome. First Rome occupied Judah  2000 years ago but Judah undermined the Romans individually and as a culture  therebyreplacing the frivolous morality the Romans had at the time.Then the dark ages of the Roman church age. Then the rennisance when the classical age seemed to make a comeback in middle ages.Oops then the reformation.Then judah' winning again.then the french revolution, with the rabble back in power, the wwi &ww2 the rabble defeats the purebreeds again.hurray for our side!only problem-christianity is declining,what to replace it with?hmmmm.I know, people like sex, people like drugs.people just like to feel good.Hey that sounds like ancient!Let's just go back to the old religion, it didn't have the requirements of the gospels of christ, Heck,we already do these activities anyway why not make it the law of the land?And while we are at it let's kill the people who are interfering with our happiness-the christians!and the people who started all of this,the Jews.Are not the ancient fires burning again?.You do away with the christian god, no one believes in his rules anymore.anything goes.soon enough when someone kills a Jew or christian they willthink they did the world a favor.Only problem is when the lord returns and fries their butt.
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athens - types of government in order of history:\n\n- rule by king\n- rule by oligarchy (the rule of the archons)\n- rule of solon (benevolent dictator governing by the will of the people)\n- rule by class-based assemblies (set up by solon - there were 4 levels, arranged by class, each had an assembly and governed certain affairs)\n- the tyranny of Peisistratus & Hippias (after Solon's death and a period of transition toward anarchy)\n- The conquering of athena by sparta\n- the appointment of a spartan-picked athenian council.\n- the rebellions of the council\n- the second invasion by sparta - repelled by athens\n- the rule of Cleisthenes - where most of what you think of as "democracy" came in to play.\n\nAll free men living in Athens and Attica (the area surrounding Athens) were classified as "citizens".  Cleisthenes established a council which would be the chief arm of government with all executive and administrative control. Every citizen over the age of thirty was eligible to sit on this council; each year the members of the council would be chosen by lot. The Assembly, which included all male citizens, was allowed to veto any of the council's proposals and was the only branch of government that could declare war. In 487, long after Cleisthenes, the Athenians added the final aspect of Athenian democracy proper: ostracism. The Assembly could vote (voting was done on potsherds called ostra ) on expelling citizens from the state for a period of ten years. This ostracism would guarantee that individuals who were contemplating seizing power would be removed from the country before they got too powerful.\n\n\nA decision by a jury commonly refers to a court case.  In civil matters the majority of the jury must be in agreement as to a verdict.  In a criminal matter they must be unanimous (all) in agreement as to the verdict.\n\nAs a tidbit - athenian juries were typically composed of 400-500 individuals and decided based on majority votes (sometimes 50% +1...sometimes 3/5, sometimes other ratios)  and...if you brought suit against another and then failed to meet a minimum threshold (usually 2/5 of the votes) then you were automatically guilty of false prosecution.  substaintial fines ensued  :)\n\nand - athenian juries only had the options of: fine, jail confinement, banishment (loss of citizenship) and death.  The prosecution could propose one punishment, the defense another.  prosectutors almost always urged death so that the defendant would self-select an appropriately stiff punishment as an offering. (usually a large fine).
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Very similar.  Greek Orthodoxy is a national church.  Catholicism is more universal in its leadership an application of faith.  Calendars for feast days do differ at times.  Prayers, saints, liturgies are similar.
720907
Quite possible since thay both head up tyrannus administrations.. one being government, the other monotheistic religion. Not much difference there.