Discuss the nature of Greek religion.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The gods of the Greek pantheon are depicted in anthropomorphic terms. They are subject to all the same foibles as ordinary humans are. The gods think like humans, act like humans, and speak like humans. They sometimes seem to differ from humans only in the fact that they are immortal. Unlike the Hebrew God, who is sometimes portrayed as arbitrary, the Greek gods present humans with no clear principles of behavior, and the priests and priestesses who oversaw the rituals dedicated to them produced no scriptures or doctrines. These qualities created a kind of cosmic uncertainty, and they also embodied the intellectual freedom and the spirit of philosophical inquiry that would come to define the Greek state.