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Article: A Potomac Pantheon; A Guide to the Gods of Greece And Where To Find Them Now
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- The Washington Post
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- January 11, 1995
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Is God dead?
Time magazine once asked that question on its cover. The answer
from billions of believers around the world undoubtedly would be a
firm and faithful "No!" But gods do die. Who remembers Baal, anyway?
And so it was with the deities of ancient Greece and Rome. Not a soul
on Earth still worships any of them.
Yet, while the Greek and Roman religions are long buried, the
legacy of their divine beings thrives. Generations of artists, from
da Vinci to Delacroix, have made them subjects of masterpieces, while
famed writers and poets have alluded to them in print. The skies are
filled with heavenly bodies bearing their names and, in the not-too-
distant past, spacecraft. Even today, the ...
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