ares was considered chief among the greek gods.
ares was considered chief among the greek gods.
who was considered chief among the greek gods?
ares
in the hellenistic period, there was much continuity in greek religion: the greek gods continued to be worshiped, and the same rites were practiced as before. however the socio-political changes brought on by the conquest of the persian empire and greek emigration abroad meant that change also came to religious practices. this varied greatly by location. athens, sparta and most cities in the greek mainland did not see much religious change or new gods (with the exception of the egyptian isis in athens), while the multi-ethnic alexandria had a very varied group of gods and religious practices, including egyptian, jewish and greek. greek emigres brought their greek religion everywhere they went, even as far as india and afghanistan. non-greeks also had more freedom to travel and trade throughout the mediterranean and in this period we can see egyptian gods such as serapis, and the syrian gods atargatis and hadad, as well as a jewish synagogue, all coexisting on the island of delos alongside classical greek deities. a common practice was to identify greek gods with native gods that had similar characteristics and this created new fusions like zeus-ammon, aphrodite hagne (a hellenized atargatis) and isis-demeter. greek emigres faced individual religious choices they had not faced on their home cities, where the gods they worshiped were dictated by tradition.
hellenistic period
ricky and his mighty robot were bored until when his parents got in their car to go shopping, ricky's mother told him and the robot not to make any mess while they're gone and then his father gave ricky an idea of building a fort. while the parents were gone, the mayor of squeakyville wanted to demolish an abandoned building but it costs money to do so, so ricky and his robot saved the mayor's trouble by tearing down the building for free. with all the debris from the building, ricky and his robot built a fort, which made noises that annoyed farmer feta, who lived next door to ricky. when the parents arrived home, they saw the fort that ricky and his robot built. ricky's mother was displeased and called the fort a mess and said that the ricotta family is having cousin lucy, uncle freddie, and auntie ethel as their guests in their house. when the relatives arrived, lucy called the fort a castle and said it should be painted pink, much to ricky's dismay. meanwhile, on planet neptune, nimrod nightcrawler was planning to take over earth due to their planet being cold and clouded with poisonous vapor after some greedy nightcrawlers dug for fossil fuel which caused all of the nightcrawlers on neptune to live underground but he also knew about ricky's robot. nimrod launched a rocket with an inflatable teleporter (wormhole) to planet earth, which crashed at farmer feta's property. through the teleporter, nimrod convinced the farmer that he can stop ricky and his robot for their annoyances by digging under his property, but the farmer did not mean for ricky and his robot to be harmed. when the digging began, the fort started to tumble and when the robot tried to keep it stable, he fell into a deep pit set up by nimrod and his army of naughty nightcrawlers. after that, the fort crashed down on the robot, trapping him. then ricky, lucy, and her pets cupcake, fudgie, and waffles, went through the teleporter to investigate and arrived at some underground home of the nightcrawlers on neptune. the nightcrawlers in the tunnel caught ricky, lucy, and her pets with their tight squeeze but the heroes freed themselves by tickling the nightcrawlers. then they went back to earth through the teleporter but the nightcrawlers followed. then the robot got freed by lucy who was riding on one of the nightcrawlers' robo-suits (assumed to be riding on her unicorn as a princess) by digging him up. the robot scared away the nightcrawlers who followed them and made the nightcrawlers return to neptune through the teleporter. after that, the robot defeated the rest of the other nightcrawlers who were destroying squeakyville. they, too, ran away back to neptune through the teleporter and ricky and his robot jailed nimrod nightcrawler. soon, ricky, the robot, lucy, cupcake, fudgie, and waffles cleaned up the mess by throwing away all the debris from the destroyed fort into the teleporter, destroying computers and other technology belonging to the nightcrawlers in the underground tunnel of neptune. with the deep pit in the yard, lucy filled it up with water by a garden hose and made it into an artificial pond. the story concludes as ricky, the robot (using the deactivated wormhole/teleporter as his inflatable tube), lucy, and her pets happily swam in the backyard pond.
ricky ricotta's mighty robot (series)