Assignment task: Polytheism and Monotheism
What are the similarities and differences among Greco-Roman polytheism, the indigenous belief systems of the Pre-Conquest Americas and Islamic monotheism?
How does a culture's artistic production (art, literature, music, architecture, philosophy etc.) change depending on whether a social order, in general, worships many gods (polytheism) or one God (monotheism), or if it's founded on indigenous principles?
The Parthenon, the Pantheon or the Roman Colosseum, Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, the writings of Aristotle and Plato, Virgil's Aeneid, or the theatre of Sophocles or Aeschylus, the philosophy of the Epicureans or the Stoics as well as a variety of the cultural artifacts of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Aztec, Moche, Inca, Pueblo, Amazonia or Arawak and/or the The Quran and the social and cultural achievements of the Islamic Golden Age.