The Greek and Roman religions have no prophets, no dogmatic books, and have no hierarchy priestly class.<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\tAlmost all religions have a holy book<\/em>, a dogma<\/em> and doctrine<\/em> generally transmitted by a prophet<\/em> or messenger of God<\/em>. Christianity<\/em> with his Bible<\/em> and Jesus, Judaism<\/em> with their holy books and prophets, and Islam<\/em> with his Koran<\/em> and Mohammed are known precisely as "religions of the book<\/em>". In such cases the words inside the book are the word of God, and therefore its contents are dogmas that can not be questioned.<\/p>\n \n\tIn Ancient Greece and Rome<\/em> there is not a prophet or theologian who has communicated a similar doctrine, religious rules of conduct. And therefore religion is a field in which you can act much more freely. There is no holy book like the Bible or the Koran, at most there are books of prophecies, called "Sibylline Books<\/em>" that the Romans, very superstitious people, consulted in any circumstance of particular importance to the republic, for the State.<\/p>\n \n\tNor is there a group or priestly caste monopolizing the relationship with the divine, though some families may have a special relationship with a particular deity.<\/p>\n \n\tThe ones who set many of the different characteristics of the Greek gods were Homer<\/em>, talking about them in his Iliad<\/em> and Odyssey<\/em> in the eighth century B.C., and then Hesiod<\/em> in his Theogony<\/em> briefly after. They set their names (Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Apollo<\/em>, etc..), their figures, their skills and arts.<\/p>\n \n\tIt should be distinguish the gods whom the Greeks worship in their temples and their cities from the gods of mythology<\/em>, created mainly by poets precisely thanks to a religion without prophets and without dogmas. And even more, we must differentiate "the gods of the philosophers<\/em>", the result of reflection on religion that produces all kinds of thought towards religion, from atheism<\/em> to deism<\/em> or animism<\/em>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greek and Roman religions have no prophets, no dogmatic books, and have no hierarchy priestly class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gods-religion","category-mythology","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}