Five Stages of Greek Religion
Five Stages of Greek Religion
Saturnia Regna -- The Olympian conquest -- The great schools -- The failure of nerve -- The last protest -- Appendix: Translation of the treatise of Sallustius.
Book Excerpt
ock's edition (Cambridge 1926) has admirably filled this gap.
CONTENTS
PAGE I. SATURNIA REGNA 1
II. THE OLYMPIAN CONQUEST 39
III. THE GREAT SCHOOLS 79
IV. THE FAILURE OF NERVE 123
V. THE LAST PROTEST 173
APPENDIX: TRANSLATION OF THE TREATISE OF SALLUSTIUS, +peri Theôn kai Kosmou+ 200
INDEX 227
+O prôtos anthrôpos ek gês, choikos; ho deuteros anthrôpos ho Kyrios ex ouranou.+
"The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven."
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SATURNIA REGNA
Many persons who are quite prepared to admit the importance to the world of Greek poetry, Greek art, and Greek philosophy, may still feel it rather a paradox to be told that Greek religion specially repays our study at the present day. Greek religion, associated with a romantic, trivial, and not very edifying mythology, has generally seemed one of the weakest spots in the armour of those giants of the old worl
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