
Five Stages of Greek Religion
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Beginning with Greece's earliest rites, this volume traces the development of the classic religion of the Olympian gods and discusses the religion of the philosophic schools of the fourth century BC. It portrays the emergence of Christianity and concludes with an account of the efforts of Julian the Apostate to restore a new variety of paganism.
Chapters (296)(click to expand)
- FIVE STAGES OF GREEK RELIGION
- GILBERT MURRAY
- Boston
- THE BEACON PRESS
- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTENTS
- I
- SATURNIA REGNA
- FOOTNOTES:
- II
- THE OLYMPIAN CONQUEST
- I. Origin of the Olympians
- II. The Religious Value of the Olympians
- FOOTNOTES:
- III
- THE GREAT SCHOOLS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, B. C.
- NOTE
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV
- THE FAILURE OF NERVE
- Bibliographical Note
- FOOTNOTES:
- V
- THE LAST PROTEST
- FOOTNOTES:
- SALLUSTIUS 'ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD'[200-1]
- I. What the Disciple should be; and concerning Common Conceptions.
- II. That God is unchanging, unbegotten, eternal, incorporeal, and not in space.
- III. Concerning myths; that they are divine, and why.
- IV. That the species of Myth are five, with examples of each.
- V. On the First Cause.
- VI. On Gods Cosmic and Hypercosmic.
- VII. On the Nature of the World and its Eternity.
- VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
- IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
- X. Concerning Virtue and Vice.
- XI. Concerning right and wrong Social Organization.[214-1]
- XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
- XIII. How things eternal are said to 'be made' (γίγνεσθαι).
- XIV. In what sense, though the Gods never change, they are said to be made angry and appeased.
- XV. Why we give worship to the Gods when they need nothing.
- XVI. Concerning sacrifices and other worships, that we benefit man by them, but not the gods.
- XVII. That the World is by nature Eternal.
- XVIII. Why there are rejections of God, and that God is not injured.
- XIX. Why sinners are not punished at once.
- XX. On Transmigration of Souls, and how Souls are said to migrate into brute beasts.
- XXI. That the Good are happy, both living and dead.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX
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