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Religion in Greek Literature

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Religion in Greek Literature
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Preface
Chapter 1: Introductory
Chapter 2: Antecedents and Survivals
Chapter 4: Religion in the Odyssey
Chapter 5: Central Greece — Hesiod: ‘Works and Days’; ‘Theogony’ — Theognis — Elegiac and Lyric Poetry — Homeric Hymns
Chapter 6: Period of Transition—Hero-Worship
Chapter 7: Transition Period Continued — The Dorian States — Magna Graecia — Beginnings of Philosophy
Chapter 8: Pindar and Herodotus
Chapter 9: Effects of the Persian War on Greek Religion — Transition Towards the Athenian Period
Chapter 10: Athenian Worships
Chapter 11: The Mysteries
Chapter 12: Attic Religion in the Earlier Fifth Century
Chapter 13: Philosophy and Scepticism
Chapter 14: Socrates and the Socratics
Chapter 15: Plato and Platonism
Chapter 16: Religion in Aristotle — Subsequent Developments Conclusion
London
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1898

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