What are some POWERFUL GREEK LINE NAMES ?
Athena..
Who were the few powerful/important GREEK gods/goddesses?
Judging from the Iliad and a trip to Greece. Zeus, He's clearly in charge. Hades, sure, although people even back then didn't like thinking about Him, and their own death, too much. Athena, not only the war Goddess but the Goddess of Intelligence, Wisdom and Strategic Warfare - She fights Ares head on twice in the Iliad, both times She clobbers Him in seconds. (Ares is the God of Blood Lust War). Also, She had lots of temples, all over the place, not just Athens. For example, Athena had 3 temples in Delphi alone. I was surprised by that actually, but there they were, in "the Sanctuary of Athena the Protector". Sparta also had a "Sanctuary of Athena the Protector". Apollo. Quite a few Temples too. Not just Delphi. All over. Corinth. Delos. In the Iliad, whenever the warriors would offer an organized group prayer, it was always to "Zeus, Athena and Apollo" - the 3 of them in that order. Askepolis (sp?) God of Health. You don't hear too much about Him, but He's got lots of temples too. The only God to have a temple right against the Acropolis in Athens. (All the temples on the Acropolis were to Athena.) The Poseidon things... Well, they may be right. From the myths, the only Gods that were originally Titans, a pre-God God like race of beings, were the three, Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. Also to the Greeks, with all those islands in the Aegean Ocean, sea travel was extremely important. The whole book the Odyssey is about Odysseus trying to get back home with Poseidon mad at him which made it almost impossible. Now, on the trip, the island of Delos, which was an important island 2,500 years ago, about 2 square miles, one big city, everything supplied by ship, kind of like Manhattan today, there was a section of the ancient city where the "Poseidon-ists" lived. These people seemed to only worship Poseidon and were very powerful players. I would also say that picking the most important ones may not be quite the right way to think. They all had their domains of power. Aphrodite in love, Hera in family, Artemis in nature, etc. Judging from the temples, the three I'd pick are the same as those in the Iliad prayers: Zeus, Athena and Apollo. And Athena would get top spot.
Does anyone know greek gods or goddesses names?
There are a lot of good websites out there with this info. The first one listed has them listed by starting letter, so just click on the letters in the upper right hand corner for the names you want. It has the most information listed. I couldn't find anything for Q. Good luck!
What crimes do the furies punish? Greek mythology?
As a group "They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, crimes against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinnyes upon the criminal. The most powerful of these was the curse of the parent upon the child". There is no mention anywhere of the individual Erinnyes [Furies] punishing specific crimes different from those punished by each other. The closest reference to this that I can find is that Tisiphone was once sent by Hera to torment Zeus' lover the Argive Naiad Io, whom Zeus had transformed into a cow to disguise her from Hera. Tisiphone thus took the form of a gadfly named Brize and goaded Io the cow on all the way from Greece to Egypt, where Io eventually settled and recovered her original humanoid form, giving birth to Zeus' son Epaphos, who grew up to become king of Egypt. Tisiphone's name means "Retribution for Murder," which would be a hint about her specific role in the group except that both her sisters also punished murder, and their names are not crime-specific, Alekto [Alecto] meaning "Unceasing" and Megaira's [Megaera's] named being derived from a word that means "Grudge."
Did Classical Greek military units have individual names?
I’m not an expert, but I think that they didn’t have unit names because there was not a standing professional army in Greece until Philip of Macedonia came along and created one. Before then, with a few exceptions, a powerful lord like Agamemnon, or a city like Athens, would gather together a group of men and maybe train and equip them. Or they might have to equip themselves. Originally, the units were probably named like those of the American Civil War, ‘the 40th unit from Tennessee’, or the ‘New York 7th’, because that was who they were, amateurs from a particular area.The exceptions were Achilles’ unit, the Myrmidons, and later in the city of Thebes, the Sacred Band. Note that these units were professionals, and not just a group brought together for battle. (The respect for the Sacred Band was so great that when Alexander and his troops completely destroyed them in battle, his father Philip had them all buried together under a lion tombstone, which you can still visit today.)Under Alexander, we know at least a few units were singled out and named: the “Silver Shields” was a group of veterans that were exceptionally skilled, and later deliberately destroyed in battle by Alexander’s successors. There was also a unit called the “Bronze Shields”. Otherwise, they were named for their function, like “the Foot Companions”, or their origin and function, like “the Agrianian peltasts” .
Why did independent Greek city-states develop?
If you take a look at the maps of Greece you��ll see that the terrain is extremely difficult. It is full of high mountains, but with the occasional good valley by the sea surrounded by a chain of mountains that’s difficult to move through. There are lots of inlets and peninsulas, and Southern Greece is almost totally divided from Northern by a long channel with only a tiny strip connecting the two. Not an easy country for a conqueror to unite.The Greeks were invaders, and their waves came with centuries between them in time. Each wave found a different protected valley by the sea where they built a city and surrounded it with a protective wall. The main groups were Dorans and Achaeans. The first to come set up Sparta in the Southern part of Greece, enslaving the original inhabitants whom they called the Helots. They developed their own very tough society in which the young of the conquerors were educated in what are still known as ‘Spartan’ conditions.Athens, much later, set up its own city with a far different political culture, but still based on a form of slavery. Each invading group were very proud of the different culture they had developed. But ultimately despite difference in dialect those invaders could understand each other and were held together by the view that they were all civilised but everyone else was a barbarian.Another factor that held these city states together whilst remaining apart was that they all believed in the Father of the Gods, Zeus, and would go to Olympia every four years to honour him. That’s where they held the Olympic Games to honour him, indulging in sporting rivalry and cheering on their own athletes.And although the cities also had their own other gods too, like Poseidon and Athena, and had their own city festivals to honour them, ultimately the Greeks agreed that all those Gods lived much of their time with Zeus on Mount Olympus so they didn’t try to exterminate each other’s temples and favourite gods. There was a sort of Pantheon of Gods accepted. That made for a very different outlook than say Christianity or Judaism versus Islam.