Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
§ 1. Modern Folklore as a source for the study of Ancient Religion 1-7 § 2. The survival of Ancient Tradition 8-25 § 3. The survival of Hellenic Tradition 25-36 § 4. The survival of Pagan Tradition 36-64
§ 1. Modern Folklore as a source for the study of Ancient Religion 1-7 § 2. The survival of Ancient Tradition 8-25 § 3. The survival of Hellenic Tradition 25-36 § 4. The surviva...
2. CHAPTER II. THE SURVIVAL OF PAGAN DEITIES.§ 1. The Range of Modern Polytheism 65-71 § 2. Zeus 72-74 § 3. Poseidon 75-77 § 4. Pan 77-79 § 5. Demeter and Persephone 79-98 § 6. Charon 98-117 § 7. Aphrodite and Eros 117-120...
3. CHAPTER IV. THE RELATION OF SOUL AND BODY.§ 1. The Modern Greek Vampire 361-376 § 2. The Composition of the Superstition: Slavonic, Ecclesiastical, and Hellenic Contributions 376-412 § 3. Revenants in Ancient Greece 412...
4. CHAPTER VII. THE UNION OF GODS AND MEN 543-6065. CHAPTER I.The sources of information most obviously open to the student of ancient Greek religion are the Art and the Literature of ancient Greece; and the idea that modern Greece can hav...
6. CHAPTER II.Thus far we have considered paganism in its bearing and influence upon modern Greek Christianity. We have seen how the Church, in endeavouring to widen her influence, countenanc...
7. ill. This change is probably due to Christian influences; the seamanno longer looks to any pagan power for succour in time of peril; he accounts St Nicholas his friend and saviour; and the Telonia, who in this province of their activity represen...
8. CHAPTER III.The short sketch which has been given of the attitude of the Greek peasantry towards the Christian Godhead and all the host of assistant saints, and also the more detailed accou...
9. CHAPTER IV.The division of the human entity into the two parts which we call soul and body has been so universally recognised even among the most primitive of mankind that the idea of it m...
10. CHAPTER V.The discussion of those abnormal cases of after-death existence, to which the last chapter has been devoted, has disclosed to us the fact that in all ages of Greece the conditio...
11. CHAPTER VI.Thus far the investigation of customs and beliefs in ancient and modern times relating to the treatment of the dead has established the fact that the dissolution of the body was...
12. CHAPTER VII.The similitude of death with sleep is an idea of ancient date and of wide distribution, which for many of mankind, whatever be the creed professed, has mitigated the fears or li...