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	Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus et al.



	Matching Exercises Matching Exercises Chapter 3: The Greek City-State E. Although the Greek polis was founded upon rational conceptions of law and citizenship, religion and mythopoeic thought continued to play an important role in Greek life. Match the four principal religions of ancient Greece with their their attributes. 1. control of bodily desires would lead liberate soul after death 2. devoted to several gods, the chief of whom was Zeus 3. ecstatic dances and frenzied prayers for abundant harvests 4. gods recognized by all Greeks 5. rituals of purification and rebirth in preparation for death 6. given clarity and structure by Homer's epics 7. devoted to god of wine and fertility