Five Stages of Greek Religion

About this eBook

Author

Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957

Credits

Produced by David Garcia, David Newman, Juliet Sutherland, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Greece -- Religion

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30250

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30250

Release Date

October 13, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIVE STAGES OF — GREEK RELIGION
2. 2.GILBERT MURRAY — Boston — THE BEACON PRESS
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
4. 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
5. 5.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.I — SATURNIA REGNA — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.II — THE OLYMPIAN CONQUEST — I. Origin of the Olympians — II. The Religious Value of the Olympians — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.III — THE GREAT SCHOOLS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, B. C. — NOTE — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.IV — THE FAILURE OF NERVE — Bibliographical Note — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.V — THE LAST PROTEST — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.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:
13. 13.INDEX
14. 14.Transcriber's Notes

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