Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Main features of Spartan religion
- Gods and goddesses
- Spartans believed that their lives were
controlled by 12 gods and goddesses
who lived on Mount Olympus
- Zeus, the chief
god, was
worshipped
asthe divine
founder of
Sparta
- Poseidon, the
god of sea and
earthquakes,
was also
worshipped at
several
sanctuaries in
Laconia, he was
known Pohoidan,
- Apollo, the
god of light,
music, truth
and health,
had a temple
at Delphi
where he
was believed
to given
messages
that made
decisions of
Greek world.
- Artemis, the
goddess of hunting,
the moon and
protector of women
who were to be
married or who
were childbirth
- Places of worship
- Sparta's religious sites were located on tthe outskirts of town
- The Temple of Artemis Orthia
(located out of sight near the
Eurotas River).
- The Temple of
Athena of the
Bronze House
(stood in the
north eastern
part of the
acropolis).
- The Menelaion
(situated in the
Parnon ranges
looking across the
Eurotas River).
- The Temple of
Apollo at Amyclae
(located six
kilometres from
Sparta)
- Festivals
- Apollo Carneia (Karneia)
- The Gymnopaedia
- Artemis Orthia
- The Hyakinthia
- The Promacheia