HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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The Greeks thought their gods were based on the best aspects of humanity.
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The Greeks thought their gods preferred to reward humans rather than punish them.
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The Greeks thought their gods did not respond to their prayers.
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The Greeks thought their gods were flawed like human beings.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement accurately describes how the Ancient Greeks viewed the relationship between themselves and their deities? The Greeks thought their gods were based on the best aspects of humanity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ancient Greeks believed in gods who were involved in all aspects of human life-work, theater, justice, politics, marriage, battle. There was no separation of church and state. The gods of this ancient Greek pantheon were very human.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Greeks called their land Hellas and themselves Hellenes. It was the Romans who called them Greeks-(Graeci ) and that is the name by which we know them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Greek religion is not the same as Greek mythology, which is concerned with traditional tales, though the two are closely interlinked. Curiously, for a people so religiously minded, the Greeks had no word for religion itself; the nearest terms were eusebeia (“piety”) and threskeia (“cult”).