Author: MURRAY, GILBERT
Title: Five Stages of Greek Religion
Description: London, Watts & Co. 1946, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Studies based on a course of lectures on ancient Greek religious practices and beliefs,originally delivered April 1912 at Columbia University . ".be begins by describing the background of primitive and bloody rites that may still be dimly perceived through the clear surface of the Greek myths; continues with the classic religion of the Olympian Gods (.); describes the religion of the Philosophic schools of the fourth centry BC ; and then in a classic chapter on the "failure of Nerve" portrays the breakdown of rational Greek religion under the impact of religions of the East; ot of that clash was to arise Christianity. A last chapter drescribes the affort of Julian the Apostate to retore a purified and . sophisticated paganism." 221p. index. An original vintage copy, NOT one you have to wait to get printed. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Keywords: Greece Greek Ancient Religion Mythology Greek Mythology Greek Gods and Religion


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