Five Stages of Greek Religion

Chapter 18

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Again, if the World is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to Nature or against Nature. Against Nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than Nature.[222:1] If according to Nature, there must be another Nature which changes the Nature of the World: which does not appear.

Again, anything that is naturally destructible we can ourselves destroy. But no one has ever destroyed or altered the round body of the World. And the elements, though they can be changed, cannot be destroyed. Again, everything destructible is changed by time and grows old. But the world through all these years has remained utterly unchanged.

Having said so much for the help of those who feel the need of very strong demonstrations, I pray the World himself to be gracious to me.

XVIII. _Why there are rejections of God, and that God is not injured._

Nor need the fact that rejections of God have taken place in certain parts of the earth and will often take place hereafter, disturb the mind of the wise: both because these things do not affect the gods, just as we saw that worship did not benefit them; and because the soul, being of middle essence, cannot be always right; and because the whole world cannot enjoy the providence of the gods equally, but some parts may partake of it eternally, some at certain times, some in the primal manner, some in the secondary. Just as the head enjoys all the senses, but the rest of the body only one.

For this reason, it seems, those who ordained Festivals ordained also Forbidden Days, in which some temples lay idle, some were shut, some had their adornment removed, in expiation of the weakness of our nature.

It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

XIX. _Why sinners are not punished at once._

There is no need to be surprised if neither these sins nor yet others bring immediate punishment upon sinners. For it is not only Spirits[223:1] who punish the soul, the Soul brings itself to judgement: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by Spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake[224:1] there subsist that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.

XX. _On Transmigration of Souls, and how Souls are said to migrate into brute beasts._

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

The transmigration of souls can be proved from the congenital afflictions of persons. For why are some born blind, others paralytic, others with some sickness in the soul itself? Again, it is the natural duty of Souls to do their work in the body; are we to suppose that when once they leave the body they spend all eternity in idleness?

Again, if the souls did not again enter into bodies, they must either be infinite in number or God must constantly be making new ones. But there is nothing infinite in the world; for in a finite whole there cannot be an infinite part. Neither can others be made; for everything in which something new goes on being created, must be imperfect. And the World, being made by a perfect author, ought naturally to be perfect.

XXI. _That the Good are happy, both living and dead._

Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy,[224:2] and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

FOOTNOTES:

[200:1] I translate κόσμος generally as 'World', sometimes as 'Cosmos'. It always has the connotation of 'divine order'; ψυχή always 'Soul', to keep it distinct from ζωή, 'physical life', though often 'Life' would be a more natural English equivalent; ἐμψυχοῦν 'to animate'; οὐσία sometimes 'essence', sometimes 'being' (never 'substance' or 'nature'); φύσις 'nature'; σῶμα sometimes 'body', sometimes 'matter'.

[203:1] e. g. when we say 'The sun is coming in through the window', or in Greek ἐξαίφνης ἥκων ἐκ τοῦ ἡλίου, Plat. _Rep._ 516 E. This appears to mean that you can loosely apply the term 'Osiris' both to (i) the real Osiris and (ii) the corn which comes from him, as you can apply the name 'Sun' both to (i) the real orb and (ii) the ray that comes from the orb. However, Julian, _Or._ v, on the Sun suggests a different view--that both the orb and the ray are mere effects and symbols of the true spiritual Sun, as corn is of Osiris.

[204:1] ἄρχεσθαι Mr. L. W. Hunter, ἔρχεσθαι MS. Above the Milky Way there is no such body, only σῶμα ἀπαθές. Cf. Macrob. in _Somn. Scip._ i. 12.

[208:1] i. e. if the Firmament or Fixed Sphere moved in the same direction as the seven Planets, the speed would become too great. On the circular movement cf. Plot. _Eun._ ii. 2.

[209:1] The fire of which the heavenly bodies are made is the πέμπτον σῶμα, matter, but different from earthly matter. See p. 137.

[209:2] Proclus, _Elem. Theol._ xx, calls it ἡ νοερὰ φύσις, _Natura Intellectualis_. There are four degrees of existence: lowest of all, Bodies; above that, Soul; above all Souls, this 'Intellectual Nature'; above that, The One.

[210:1] i. e. in the full sense of Gnôsis.

[211:1] i. e. Astrology, dealing with the 'Celestial Bodies'.

[212:1] Cf. Hdt. i. 134.

[214:1] [This section is a meagre reminiscence of Plato's discussion in _Repub._ viii. The interest in politics and government had died out with the loss of political freedom.]

[216:1] κατὰ δύναμιν, secundum potentiam quandam; i. e. in accordance with some indwelling 'virtue' or quality.

[217:1] The repetition of ἀνθρώπους in this sentence seems to be a mistake.

[218:1] ἐπιτηδειότης.

[219:1] On the mystic letters see above, p. 142.

[222:1] The text here is imperfect: I have followed Mullach's correction.

[223:1] δαίμονες.

[224:1] i. e. that it may continue to exist and satisfy justice.

[224:2] εὐδαιμονοῦσι.

INDEX

Achaioi, 45, 49

Acropolis, 71, 72

Aeschylus, [12:4], 43

Affection, 104, 109

Agesilaus, 86

Agriculture, Religion in, 5 f.

Alexander the Great, 92, 93, 94, 115, 159

Allegory, in Hellenistic philosophy, 165 ff.; in Olympian religion, 74

ἀλληλοφαγία, [98:1]

Alpha and Omega, God as, 148

Anaximander, [33:1]

Angel = Megethos, 142; star, 144

Animal sacrifice, 188 f.

Anthesteria, 16-18, 34

_Anthister_, [18:2]

Anthropomorphism, 10 ff., 140

Antigonus Gonatas, [152:1]

Antiochus I, 144

Anti-semitism, 162

Antisthenes, 87, 89 f., 96

Apathy, [103:1], 109

_Apellôn_ = Apollôn, 51

_Aphiktor_, 28

Aphrodite, 57

Apollo, 50, 72

Apotheosis of Hellenistic kings, [152:1]

Apparitions, primitive belief in, 27

Apuleius, 148

Aquinas, 3

Archontes, 164

Ares, 57

_Aretê_, 89, 96, 99, 104 f.

Aristarchus of Samos, 141

Aristophanes, [20:3], [22:1], [62:1]

Aristotle, 3, 114 f., 117, 120, 127, 136, 153, [154:3]

Ark of Israel, 68

Arnim, von, [129:1], 172

Arnold, Professor E. V., [100:1]

Asceticism in antiquity, 196

Astrology, 143 f., [211:1]

Astronomy, 97

Ἀθάνα (Ἀθήνη), [53:1]

Atheism, 181 f., 190

Athena, [53:1], 71, 72, 74; = Athenaia Korê, 52; Pallas, 52

Athens, effect of defeat of, 79 f.

Atomic Theory of Democritus, 101; of Ionia, 105

Attis, 185

'Attributes', animals as, 20

Augustine, St., 175, 177

Aurelius, Marcus, religion of, 175 f.

Bacchos, 161

Bacon, Professor, 172

'Barbaroi' as opposed to Hellenes, 39; βαρβαρόφωνοι, [42:2]

Bardesanes, [164:1]

Barnabas, St., 161

Beast-mask, 23-5

Bendis, 151

Bethe, E., [150:1]

Bevan, E., xvi, [39:1], [100:1], [154:2], 172

Birth-rate, its effect on early Christian sects, 194

Blessedness, Epicurus on, 106

Body, Fifth, 137

βοῶπις, 24

Bousset, W., xv, 126, [150:3], 162, 172

Buddhism, 10

Bull, blood of, 20; in pre-Hellenic ritual, 19-21

Bury, Professor J. B., xv

Carpenter, Dr. E., 172

Cauer, P., [49:1]

Centaurs, 60

Chadwick, H. M., xv, 46 _n._, [57:3], 59

Chaldaeans, 144, 151

Chance, 131, 147

Charles, Dr., 172

χρᾶν, 37

χρεία, 90

Christianity, 88, 90, 96, 109, 115, 119, 123-5, 173, 181 f., 192-5

Christmas, Father, 15

Christos, 163

Chrysippus, 115, [145:1], [145:3], [145:4], 146, 166

Chthonioi, as oracles, 37

Cicero, [27:2]

Circular movement, [208:1]

_Circumcelliones_, 36 _n._

City of gods and men, world as, 76; of Refuge, in the _Laws_, 83; of Righteousness, in the _Republic_, 83: _see_ Polis

Cleanthes, 135, 141, 165

Clemen, Carl, 172

Coinage, deface of, 90

'Collective Desire', God defined as the, 26, 29

Colotes, [111:1]

_Comitatus_, 46

Commagene, 144

Conceptions, Common, 200

Constantine, 194

Constantius, 179

Convention, 91

Conybeare, F. C., 172

Cook, A. B., [16:1], 23, [24:1], 49 f., [56:3], 66 _n._

Copernicus, 97

Corinna, 43

Cornford, F. M., [33:1]

Cornutus, 166

_Cosmopolîtes_, 92

Cosmos, 97-100, 208

Crates, [95:1], 166

Creeds, 173 f., 178, 183

Crucifixion, [163:1]

Cumont, F., [35:1], 126, 172

Cynics, 3, 90-2, 93-5, 104; women among, [95:1]

_Cyropaedeia_, 85

Cyrus, 85

Daemon = Stoicheion, 142

Dance, religious, 27 f.

Davenport, F. M., [26:1]

Davy, G., 7 _n._

Dead, worship of, 62

Deification, E. Bevan on, [154:2]

Deliverer, the, 108

Delos, 51

_Delusio_, 169

Demeter, 72

Democritus, Atomic Theory of, 101

Demos, 82

Demosthenes, 82

Destiny, Hymn to, 135: _see_ Fate

_Dharma_, 10

_Diadochi_, 155

Diasia, 14-15

διατριβή, 90

Dicaearchus, 121 f.

_Didascaliae_, 121

Diels, [33:1], [129:1], 172

Dieterich, A., [17:1], [23:1], [29:2], 126, 146, [150:3], 172

Dio Cassius, 142

Diocletian, 194 f.

Diodorus, 144 f.

Diogenes, 90-3, 95; his 'tub,' 92

Diogenes of Oenoanda, [101:1], 114, 169 f.

Dione, 56

Dionysius, 17, 20, 72, 84, 159

δίοπτρα, 122

Disciples, qualifications and conduct of, 200

Discouragement due to collapse of the Polis, 81

Dittenberger. W., [16:1], [156:1]

Divine Mother, 164; 'Divine Wisdom', personified, 165

Dodds, E. R., [181:1]

Doutté, E., 26 f.

Dramaturge, 97

_Drômenon_, spring, 32 f.

Dümmler, [87:1]

Durkheim, Professor Émile, [6:1]

Earth, divinity of, 137; Earth-mother, 29

ἡδονή, 106

Education, [113:3]

_Ekstasis_, 150

Elements, Apuleius on, 148; divinity of, 137; in the Kosmos, 142

ἐμψυχοῦν, [200:1]

_Enthousiasmos_, 150

Eôs, 53

Epictetus, morals of, 176

Epicureans, 3, 110 f., 113, 119, 130, 145 f., 181

Epicurus, 101-11, 113, 129 f., 135, 140 f., 170, [192:1]

_Epiphanês_, 155

Epiphanius, 172

ἥρωες, 37

Euergetês, 156

_Euhemerus_, 160

Euripides, [12:4], [54:3], _passim_, 143, 152

Eusebius, [27:4], 197

Evans, Sir A., 20, 66 _n._

Evil, existence of, 215; origin of, 186, 214-16

Expurgation of mythology, 75 f.; Olympian, 61 f., 67 f.

_Eye of Bel_, 143

Failure, Great, 82

Farnell, Dr. L. R., [18:1], [20:1], 44

Fate, 132, 134, 145, 146 f., 211 f.

Federations, 80

Ferguson, W. S., [152:1]

First Cause, 185, 205 f.

Fortune, 91, 131 f., 212 f.

Fourth Century, Movements of, 3, 79-122

Frazer, Sir J. G., [16:1], [18:1], [35:1], [154:1]

Gaertringen, Hiller von, [18:2]

Galaxy, 204

Games, Roman gladiatorial, 94

Garden, 107 f., 114

Gardner. P., [57:2], [149:1]

Gennep, A. Van., [31:1]

γέρων, 31

_Gerontes_, 36

Ghosts, 221

Giants, 60

γίγνεσθαι, forms of, 216 f.

γλαυκῶπις, 24

Gnostics, 3, 123, 128, 137 f., 148, 162

God, as the 'collective desire', 26, 29; conception of, in savage tribes, 9; does not rejoice, nor is angered, 218; essence of, 158; home of, 148; of the Jews, 163; rejections of, 222 f.; unchangeable, 187; Union with, 147

God-Man, as King, 152 f.

Gods, communion with, 188; Cosmic and Hypercosmic, 206 f.; men as, 136; nature of, 200 f.; Twelve, 207; unchangeable, 217; why worshipped, 218

Good, the, 88 f., 110, 185 f., 206; happiness of, 224 f.; Idea of, as Sun of the spiritual universe, 94

γραῦς, 31

Gruppe, Dr., [18:1], [50:3], [52:1], [56:3], 172

Hagia Triada, sarcophagus of, 20

Halliday, W. R., [32:2]

Happiness, Natural, 104

Harnack, A., 193

Harrison, Miss J. E., xiv, 13-30, _passim_, [148:1]

Hartland, E. S., 9

Haverfield, Professor F. J., 127

Heath, Sir T., [141:1]

Heaven, Third, 149

Hebrews, 125

Hecataeus, 143

_Heimarmenê_, 134, 145, 211

Helen, Korê as, 138

Hellenes, conquered tribes took name of, 42; no tribe of, existing in ancient times, 41; same as Achaioi, 40

Hellenism, as standard of culture, 41

Hellenistic Age, 3 f., 114, 117, 125, 131, 144, 161, 167; culture, 125; philosophy, 165; revival, 40 f.; spirit, 152

Hera, 56

Heraclitus of Ephesus, 167

Herakles, 56, 89

Hermes, 55, 151

Hermetica, 148, 151

Hermetic communities, 146

Hermias, [116:1]

Herodotus, [27:3], 39, 41, [42:1], 44; religion of, 175

Heroes, philosophers as, 153

Heroic Age, 48 f., 57

Heroism, religious, of antiquity, 192

Hesiod, 44, 64 f.

Hipparchia, [95:1]

Hippolytus, 172

Hoffmann, Dr. O., [43:1], [52:1]

Hogarth, D. G., [24:1]

Holocaust, 14

Homer, 9, 44 f., 48 f., [54:3], _passim_, 64 f.

_Hosiôtêr_, bull as, 20 f.

Hubert and Mauss, MM., [189:1]

Idealists, 82

Idols, defence of, [77:1]

Illusion, 112, 119

Impalement, [163:1]

Infanticide, 177

Initiations, Hellenistic, 148-52

Instinct, 100

Interpreters, Planets as, 144

Ionia, 59 f.

Ionian tradition, 101, 104

Ionians, 51

Iphigenia, [61:1]

_Iranes_, 32

Irenaeus, 172

Iris, 55

Isis, 151, 166

Isocrates, 81

Jacoby, [160:1]

Jaldabaoth = Saturn, 147

Javan, sons of, 42

Jews, 125, 151, 188; God of, 163

Judaism, 193

Julian, xvi, 4, 179 ff., 184 f., 197

Justin, [64:1]

Kaibel, [61:1]

Kant, 136

Keraunos, 155

_Kêres_, 34

Kern, O., [21:2]

King, I., [29:1]

Kings, as gods, 191; divine, titles of, 155 ff.; predictions concerning, by Planets, 144; worship of, 156

Koios, 166

Korê, 63 f.; as fallen Virgin, 138; Earth, 30; Earth Maiden and Mother, 137

Kosmokratores, 146, 148, 164

Kosmos, 147, [200:1]; Moon as origin of, 169; planets as Elements in, 142

Kourê, Zeus, 150

Kourêtes, 150; Spring-song of, 30

Kouroi, 30; dance of, 28

Kouros, 63 f., 71; _Megistos_, 28; Sun as, 30; Year-Daemon, 32

Kourotrophos, Earth, 30

κράτος and βία, 25, [157:1]

Kronos, 45

κτίσαντα, 23

κτίσιν, 23

Kynosarges, 89

Lampsacus, 107

Lang, Andrew, xiii, [16:2], [23:2]

Λάθε βιώσας, 110

Leaf, W., [40:1], [49:1]

Leagues, 80

Leontion, 108

Life, inward, 119 f.

Λόγος, 135

Lucian, _Icaro-Menippos_, [15:1]

Lucretius, 38, 105, [106:1], 114

Lysander, 155

Lysias, 81

McDougall, W., 125 _n._

Macedon, 81, 127

Macedonians, 93, 116, 122

Mackail, Professor J. W., 42

Man, First, 164; Righteous, of Plato, 163; Second, 163 f.; Son of Man, 163

Man-God, worship of, 156 ff.

_Mana_, 19, 21, 24, 34, [157:1]

Marett, R. R., [124:1]

Margoliouth, Professor, [167:1]

Markos the Gnostic, 150

Marriage, Sacred, 17 f.

Maximus of Tyre, [77:1]

Mayer, M., 46 _n._

Meade, G. R. S., 172

Mediator between God and worshipper, 189; Mithras as, 151; Saviour as, 162

Medicine-king, as θεός, 25, 152; powers of, 25

Megethos, 142

Meilichios, in the Diasia, 14-15, 19

Meister, R., [53:1]

Meyer, Ed., [154:3]

Mind, nature of, 209

Mithraic communities, 146

Mithraism, 148

Mithras, 123, 139, 152; as Mediator, 151; Liturgy, 146, 148; religion of, 21

Mommsen, August, [14:1], [17:1], [18:1]

Monotheism, 69 f.

Moon, as Kourotrophos, 30; as origin of Kosmos, 169; divinity of, 136 ff.

Morals, minor, 177; of antiquity, 177 f.; of Christians, 178

Moret, [23:2]

Mother, Divine, 164; Great, 185

Mülder, D., [53:1], [57:1]

Mullach, 172

Müller, H. D., [57:1]

Music of the Spheres, 142

Myres, J. L., 40

Mysteries, 93

Mystic letters, 219

Mysticism, 169

Mythology, Olympian, 75

Myths, Sallustius' treatment of, 221 f.; why divine, 201; five species, 202; explanation of examples, 203-5

Naassenes, 146, 162

Nature, the return to, as salvation for man, 91

Nausiphanes, 101

Neo-Platonism, 181

Nerve, failure of, chap. iv.

Nikator, 155

Nilsson, M. P., [18:2], [21:2], [31:1], [32:1]

Nilus, St., 21

Norden, [159:1]

_Octavius_, 164, 182, [190:1]

Odin, 59

Ogdoas, 147

_Oimôgê_, 79, 116

Olympian expurgation, 61 f., 67 ff.; family, 11; reformation, 58, 61 ff.; stage, 2; theology, 4

Olympian Gods, brought by Northern invaders, 45; character of, 46-58; coming of, 43; why so called, 44 f.

Olympian religion, achievements of, 72 ff.; beauty of, 73; conception of, 131; failure of, 67-72

Olympians, origin of, 39 ff.

Olympus, Mount, 46

Optimism, 193

Oracles, 37-8

Oreibasius, 27

Oreibates, 27

Organization, social, 214

Origins, Religious, 1

Orphic Hymns, [30:1]; literature, [64:1]

Orphism, 148

_Orthia_, 32

Osiris, 166

Othin, [50:1]

οὐσία, [200:1]

Ovid, [52:2]

Ozymandia, 144

Pagan prayer, a, 197 f.; reaction, 173 f.

Paganism, final development of, 192 f.; struggle with Christianity, 195 f.

Palimpsest, manuscript of man's creed as, 199

Palladion, 52

Pallas, Athena as, 52, 71

Panaetius, 145

Paribeni, R., [20:2]

Parker, Mrs. Langloh, 12

Parmenides, 12, [113:2]

πάτρια, τὰ, 37

Paul. St., 2 f., 7, 23, 33, 60, 124, 137, 149, 158 _n._, 161, 164

Pauly-Wissowa, [14:1]

Pausanias, [27:3], [54:2], _passim_

Payne, E. J., [29:1], [30:1]

Pelasgians, 42, 44

πέμπτον σῶμα, 137

Periclean Age, 87, 89

Peripatetic School, 114 f., 116; spirit, 122

_Peripatos_, 114

Persecution of the Christians, 181

Persephone, 74 f.

φαρμακός, 34

Pheidias, 50

φιλανθρωπία, 156, 158

φιλία, 104, 109

Philo, 172, 177

_Phusis_, 99, 134, [200:1]

Pindar, [31:3], 43, [52:2]

Pisistratus, 43, 53

πίστις, 7

Planets, seven, history and worship of, 140 ff.

Plato, 3, 13 _n._, 82-4, 109, 126, 129, 163

Pleasure, pursuit of, 110

Plotinus, 2, 4, [10:2], 135; his union with God, 149

Plutarch, [27:3] 32{1}, [34:2], [54:2], _passim_

Poimandres, 162

Πολιάς, ἡ, or Πολιεύς, ὁ, 71

_Poliouchoi_, 67

Polis, collapse of, 80, 127 f.; projection of, 71; religion of, 71, 75 f.; replaces Tribe, 66 f.

Polybius, 80

Porch, 114

Porphyry, [149:2], [188:2]

Poseidon, 54

Posidonius, 146, 159

Predestination, 145

Preuss, Dr., 2

Proclus, [209:2]

Proletariates, 194

Pronoia _or_ Providence, Stoic belief in, 90, 135

Providence, 210 f.

ψυχή, [200:1]

Ptah, 151

Ptolemaios Epiphanês, 156 f.

Punishment, eternal, 9; why not immediate, 223

Purpose of Dramaturge, 97-100

Pythagoras, 167

Pythias, 116

Rack, martyrs happy on the, 192

Reason, as combatant of passion, 91

Redeemer, of the Gnostics, 162 f.; Son of the Korê, 138

Redemption, mystery of, 163

Reformation, Olympian, 61 ff.

Refuge, City of, in the _Laws_, 83

Refugees, sufferings of, 102

Reinach, A. J., [25:1]

Reinach, S., [25:1], [68:1], 172

Reisch, E., [11:1]

Reitzenstein, xv, 126, [150:3], 172

Religion, description of, 5-9; eternal punishment for error in, 9; falseness of, 7 ff.; Greek, extensive study of, xiii; traditional, 127; significance of, 1

Religious Origins, 1

_Republic_, 94

Retribution, 33

Reuterskiold, [21:3]

Revelations, divine, 171; series of, to worshippers, 151

Revival, Hellenistic, 40 ff.

Ridgeway, Professor, [40:1], [54:1]

Righteousness, City of, in the _Republic_, 83

Rivers, Dr., [31:2]

Robertson Smith, Dr., 21 f.

Rome, a Polis, 127

Ruah, 138

Sacraments, 148

Sacrifice, human, 35, [61:1]; condemned by Theophrastus, [188:2]; Porphyry on, [188:2]; reason for, 219 f.

Sallustius, xvi, 165, 179-81, 183-5, 193

Saturn, 147

Saviour, as Son of God and Mediator, 161 f.; dying, 35 f.; Third One, 33

Sceptics, _jeux d'esprit_ of, 87

Schultz, W., 172

Schurtz, Ed., [31:1]

Schwartz, [159:1]

Scott, W., 172

Seeck, O., [53:1], 172

Sky, phenomena of, as origin of man's idea, 136

Snake, supernatural, 19

Social structure of worshippers, 151

Solon, 43

σῶμα, [200:1]

Sophocles, 123

_Sophrosynê_, 73, 83, 114, 152, 197

_Sors_: _see_ Fortune.

Sôtêr, 155

Soul, divinity of, 153-65; human, as origin of man's idea, 136; immortal, 186; nature of, 209 f.; salvation of, 164

Sparta, Athens defeated by, 80; constitution of, 87; power of, 81

Spirit, Holy, 137; personified, 165

Stars, divinity of, 136 ff., [153:1]

Steiner, von H., _Mutaziliten_, [10:2]

Stoicism, 117, 146

Stoics, 3, 76, 95-7, 104, 109 f., 119, 128, 130, 145, 160, 165

Συμπάθεια τῶν ὅλων, 145

Sun, 187; as Kouros, 30; = both orb and ray, [203:1]; divinity of, 137 ff.; worship of, 139

_Sunoikismos_, 63

Superstition, 130

Sweetness, Epicurus on, 106

Swine, sacred, 19

_Tabu_, 34 ff.

Tarn, W. W., [80:1], [152:2]

_Teletai_, 32

Thales, 2

θαρρεῖν, 95, 103 f.

Themis, 36, 37

Theodoret, 181

Theoi Adelphoi, 154

Theophrastus, 143, [188:2]

θεός = θεσός, 24; use of the word by poets, 12

Thera, [18:2]

θεσμοί, derivation of, [16:1]

Thesmophoria, 16

Thespis, 43

Third One _or_ Saviour, 33

Thomson, J. A. K., 46 _n._

Thoth, 151

Thought, subjective, 128

Thracians, 150 f.

Thucydides, 41; religion of, 175

Thumb, A., [43:1], [45:2]

Transmigration of souls, 224

Trigonometry, 122

Trinity, 164

Tritos Sôtêr, 163

Τύχη: _see_ Fortune

'Tyrants, Thirty', 84

Uncharted region of experience, 5 ff., 171, 198

_Urdummheit_, 2, 44, 72

Usener, [101:1], [113:2], [129:1], 172

Uzzah, 68

Vandal, [40:2]

Vegetarianism, [8:1]

Vegetation-spirit, 32

Verrall, A. W., [16:1]

Vice, definition of, 213 f.

Virgin, fallen, Korê as, 138

Virtue, definition of, 213 f.

Vision, 104

Warde Fowler, W., [17:1]

Webster, H., [31:1]

Week of seven days, established, 142 f.

Wendland, P., xvi, 126, 156, 172

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. von, [43:1], 59

Wisdom, Divine, personified, 165; Wisdom-Teachers, 2

Woodward, A. M., [32:1]

Word, the, personified, 165

World, ancient and modern, 120; blessedness of, 168; end of, by fire, Christian belief in, 190; eternal and indestructible, 186 f., 189, 208-9, 220-2

Xenophanes, 12

Xenophon, 79, 85, 86

Ξύνεσις, 73

Year-Daemon, 32 f.

Zeller, E., 128

Zeno, 96 f., 98, 109, 128

Zeus, Aphiktor, 28; in Magnesia bull-ritual, 21; Kourês, 150; Meilichios, 14-15; origin and character of, 49 f.; watchdog of, 93

Zodiac, 144

Transcriber's Notes

The following corrections have been made to the text.

Page 99: if[original has is] he a governor, it is his function

Page 139: some more full-blooded and less critical element[original has critica lelement]

Page 166: ('holy' and '[opening quote missing in original]sacred', or perhaps more exactly 'lawful' and '_tabu_')

Page 184: proceeds straight to the traditional[original has traditiona]

Page 227: Antigonus Gonatas[original has Gonatus], [152:1]