Lecture + seminar / 60h / 5 ECTS / winter semester. Coordinator: dr hab. Ioanna Patera

This course offers an overall picture of the main topics of religions of the ancient Mediterranean. Cosmogonies and theogonies will be presented and compared, illustrating the contacts between various cultures. Their main gods will be presented through their myths and cults. Human behaviour towards gods and other supernatural beings will illustrate general patterns and a number of variations.