Preface To The Second Edition : * p. xi PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In revising the "Four Stages of Greek Religion" I have found myself obliged to change its name. I felt there was a gap in the story. The high-water mark of Greek religious thought seems to me to have come just between the Olympian Religion and the Failure...
Preface To The Third Edition : * p. v PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION Anyone who has been in Greece at Easter time, especially among the more remote peasants, must have been struck by the emotion of suspense and excitement with which they wait for the announcement "Christos anest, Christ is risen!" and the response "Alths anest"...
I. Saturnia Regna : * p. 1 I SATURNIA REGNA Many persons who are quite prepared to admit the importance to the world of Greek poetry, Greek art, and Greek philosophy, may still feel it rather a paradox to be told that Greek religion specially repays our study at the present day. Greek religion, associated with...
Transcriber's Notes : * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Pages x and 226 are blank in the original. Ellipses match the original. 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 critic...
Untitled : * p. 226 p. 227 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 * , [98 1] * Alph...
Iii. The Great Schools : * p. 79 III THE GREAT SCHOOLS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, B. C. There is a passage in Xenophon describing how, one summer night, in 405 b. c., people in Athens heard a cry of wailing, an "oimg", making its way up between the long walls from the Piraeus, and coming nearer and nearer as they listened. It...
Iv. The Failure Of Nerve : * p. 123 IV THE FAILURE OF NERVE Any one who turns from the great writers of classical Athens, say Sophocles or Aristotle, to those of the Christian era must be conscious of a great difference in tone. There is a change in the whole relation of the writer to the world about him. The new quality is...
Appendix. Translation Of The Treatise : * p. 200 SALLUSTIUS 'ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD' 200 1 I. "WHAT THE DISCIPLE SHOULD BE; AND CONCERNING COMMON CONCEPTIONS." Those who wish to hear about the Gods should have been well guided from childhood, and not habituated to foolish beliefs. They should also be in disposition good and sensible...
Ii. The Olympian Conquest : * p. 39 II THE OLYMPIAN CONQUEST I. "Origin Of The Olympians" The historian of early Greece must find himself often on the watch for a particular cardinal moment, generally impossible to date in time and sometimes hard even to define in terms of development, when the clear outline that we call...
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V. The Last Protest : * p. 173 V THE LAST PROTEST In the last essay we have followed Greek popular religion to the very threshold of Christianity, till we found not only a soil ready for the seed of Christian metaphysic, but a large number of the plants already in full and exuberant growth. A complete history of Greek...
Preface To The First Edition : * p. xiii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This small book has taken a long time in growing. Though the first two essays were only put in writing this year for a course of lectures which I had the honour of delivering at Columbia University in 1912, the third, which was also used at Columbia, had...
