Exploration On The Seagod Worship And Marine Awareness Of Ancient Greek

The ancient Greek civilization is typical marine civilization,Ocean is closely related with the life of the Greeks.About the description of the seagod is relatively rich in the existing literature.Poseidon as the most important seagod was widely worshiped and had panhellenic nature gradually.Besides being sesgod,he was the god of earthquakes,and of horses.But these functions were based on the seagod.The creation of the sea is not only the crystallization of the wisdom of the Greeks,but also the reflection of society.Ancestors explored and developed using ocean that was richly endowed by nature.The ocean had great value for person and polis and was part of the life of the Greek.Espesically after the fifth centuary B.C.,Greeks realized the importance of the ocean.They improved shipbuilding technology,developed the navy,and Athens built Sea Empire what showed the martine awareness had formed in Greek.Actually,the bud of the marine awareness had already existed in the worship of the seagod.And the developing awareness deepened the worship.Therefore,the worship of the seagod and the awareness of the sea promoted and developed togother.Both of them were the important source of the morden western ciilization.