Ask Panayote 2 — Ancient Greek Gods
Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Interviewees: Panayote Dimitras
Numbering: Issue 3: Mathematics, Counselling Psychology, and More
Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Title: Question Time
Web Domain: http://www.in-sightjournal.com
Individual Publication Date: August 9, 2019
Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2019
Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Frequency: Three Times Per Year
Words: 292
Keywords: Greece, Panayote Dimitras, Scott Douglas Jacobsen.
Panayote Dimitras is the Co-Founder and Spokesperson of the Humanist Union of Greece, and a Board Member of the European Humanist Federation.
Here we talk about Greek culture and freethought, and more.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Greek culture invented many gods in ancient history. What did the gods represent to the ancient Greeks? What do those gods represent to the Greeks, in general, now?
Panayote Dimitras: Gods in polytheistic cultures, ancient and/or contemporary, in my opinion reflect people’s needs to manage phenomena they could not explain and/or fear.
In contemporary Greece for a very small minority ancient gods are venerated as such by “dodecatheists” [followers of twelve gods]; for the majority they are part of ancient history and elements of the tourist industry.
Jacobsen: Thank you for the opportunity and your time, Panayote.
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