What is the significance of the Greeks having an altar to an “unknown God”? helppp

History

1 answer:

spayn [35]2 years ago

8 0

Answer:

in the sixth century B.C., when the writer Epimenides lived, there was a plague which went all through all Greece. The Greeks felt that they more likely than not outraged one of their divine beings, so they started offering penances on raised areas to all their different bogus divine beings. When nothing worked they figured there should be a Divine being who they didn't think about whom they should by one way or another appease. So Epimenides thought of an arrangement. He delivered hungry sheep into the open country and educated men to follow the sheep to see where they would rests.

He accepted that since hungry sheep would not normally rests yet keep on touching, if the sheep were to rests it would be a sign from God that this spot was consecrated. At each spot, where the sheep tired and layed down, the Athenians constructed a special raised area and relinquished the sheep on it. A while later it is accepted the plague halted which they credited to this Unknown God tolerating the penance.

Explanation:

The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos is a Divine being referenced by the Christian Missionary Paul Areopagus discourse in Acts 17:23, that notwithstanding the twelve primary divine beings and the countless lesser gods, old Greeks loved a god they called "Agnostos Theos"; that is: "The Unknown God", which Norden called "Un-Greek". In Athens, there was a sanctuary explicitly committed to that god and regularly Athenians would swear "for the sake of The Unknown God"

You might be interested in

What did mass production allow for

kramer

Answer:

Explanation:

7 0

3 years ago

In what way was economics one cause of the Spanish-American War?

Aleks [24]

America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor

4 0

2 years ago

Read 2 more answers

What type of government is Lincoln describing in

Lina20 [59]

Answer:

A democracy

Explanation:

Lincoln was describing a democracy. What he means by 'Of the people' is the composition of the Government. The government is made up of persons who come from the people. 'By the people' refers to the population who chooses those people who should be in government.

Lincoln was describing a government made up of common people who were elected by common people to serve their interests. This is a democracy.

4 0

3 years ago

You were most likely to strike it rich in the California Gold Rush if you:

mixer [17]

Answer:

C I think.

Explanation:

If I'm wrong, tell everyone not to use this answer in the comments.

5 0

2 years ago

After Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Eastern Europe became a chaotie war zone. It is also the region where the

astra-53 [7]

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

After Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Eastern Europe became a chaotic war zone. It is also the region where the largest death camps were located. was this was a coincidence or intentional?

Let's have in mind that since Adolph Hitler wrote his essay titled "My Struggle" in 1925, he declared his aversion to the Jewish and claimed that Germans were a better race. Hitler was a supremacist and when he got to power in 1933 to lead Germany and the Nazy Party, he started teh persecution of Jewish people because he considered Jews were an inferior race. He ordered the construction of many concentration camps in Eastern Europe where German troops arrested Jews and took them to these concentration camps where they were forced to work and later were killed in the gas chambers. This period is known as the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi Party. Since 1933, when the Nazis became the party in power, they believed in race supremacy and wanted to create a supreme race in Germany, getting rid of Jewish people.

4 0

2 years ago