Category: History - Ancient
The foundation of a serious and scientific study of Greek religion, as distinct from the mere mythology of Hellas, may almost be said to have been an achievement of the last generation of scholars. And it is only through recent research that the Hellenic spirit, so creative an...
The foundation of a serious and scientific study of Greek religion, as distinct from the mere mythology of Hellas, may almost be said to have been an achievement of the last gen...
2. CHAPTER II.A summary sketch of so manifold a theme as that with which this short handbook deals will be of more value if it can present the facts in some kind of chronologic sequence.
3. CHAPTER III._Introduction of worship of Dionysos_.--As early as the tenth century B.C., and probably earlier, a new religion with a new and imposing divinity was intruding itself into Helle...
4. CHAPTER IV.The third period of Greek religion may conveniently include the fifth century and that part of the fourth that ends with the downfall of the system of civic autonomy at the batt...
5. CHAPTER V.The establishment of the Macedonian Empire wrought momentous changes in the civic-political religion of Hellas; and some of these were in the direction of loss and decay, while...