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  2. List of Mycenaean deities - Wikipedia

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    Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.

  3. List of Greek mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...

  4. Lists of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters

  5. Mycenae - Wikipedia

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    In Arcadia were depicted animal-headed gods, indicating that in the remote past the gods were conceived as animals and birds, in a surrounding of animal-headed daemons. [47] Later the gods were revealed in human forms with an animal as a companion or symbol. Some of the old gods survived in the cult of Dionysos and Pan (the goat-god).

  6. List of Greek deities - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. Major deities The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes.

  7. Mycenaean Greece - Wikipedia

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    Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. [1] It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system.

  8. Animals in ancient Greece and Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Stoics believed that animals naturally achieved the stoic way of life. [173] Ancient writers had a concept of “animal envy” which is the idea that animals were envious of human skills. [168] Augustine, a Christian theologian believed that animals were not part of the City of God as they were irrational beings.

  9. Mycenaean religion - Wikipedia

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    However, Nilsson asserts, based not on uncertain etymologies but on religious elements and on the representations and general function of the gods, that many Minoan gods and religious conceptions were fused in the Mycenaean religion. From the existing evidence, it appears that the Mycenaean religion was the mother of the Greek religion. [6]