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. ... The belief in Jesus Christ being the son of the one God is our religion. ... The Olympians include Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Hestia (later replaced by Dionysus), Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Hades, Hephaestus, and Ares. ... His daughter, Athena, was born from his head and his son Dionysus from his thigh after he had killed their respective mothers. ... Nine months later Athena was born from his forehead. ...

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In Ancient Greece, two pillars of artistic communication were theatre and architecture. ... In an age of almost non-stop warfare, the male citizens of a Greek polis between the ages of 18 and 60 were obliged to serve in the army. ... Aeschylus aptly personifies the basis of this societal value with the words of Athena: ?... Athena herself found[s]? ... actions, while they are still partially motivated by revenge, are also instructed by the god Apollo. ...

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Empires like the Macedonian, Byzantine, French, Turks, and finally the Greeks (Durant). ... They envisioned Greece being the center of all beauty and inspiration, with monuments of no comparison. ... On the isle of Delos, as told in Greek stories, the great god Apollo and his sister Thetis had been born. ... The first and foremost would be the temple to Athena, the Parthenon. ... To the right of the Propylaia was the temple of Athena Nike. ...

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The Greeks on the other hand, did most of their worship in private. ... Greek temples were also very elaborate and beautiful. ... The most famous and impressive Greek temple is the Parthenon in Athens; it was built for the goddess Athena, the patron goddess of Athens and cost millions (Walker, p 148). ... Greece also had a multiple gods, but not the extremes of Mesopotamia. There were 12 gods in the Greek pantheon called the Olympian gods. ...

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