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Clifford Herschel Moore. The Religious Thought of the Greeks
The Religious Thought of the Greeks
Table of Contents
I. HOMER AND HESIOD
II. ORPHISM, PYTHAGOREANISM, AND THE MYSTERIES
III. RELIGION IN THE POETS OF THE SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES B.C
IV. THE FIFTH CENTURY AT ATHENS
V. PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
VI. LATER RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES
VII. THE VICTORY OF GREECE OVER ROME
VIII. ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN THE. WESTERN HALF OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
IX. CHRISTIANITY
X. CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM
APPENDIX I. BIBLIOGRAPHY. General Works
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APPENDIX II. SPECIMEN OF A ROMAN CALENDAR
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
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Clifford Herschel Moore
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Poseidon, the brother of Zeus, has as his special province the sea; but he appears on Olympus at the councils of the gods. In the Iliad he supports the Achaeans vigorously; no doubt from anger at the Trojans whose king Laomedon had once cheated him of the pay which was his due for building the walls of Troy;[34] in the Odyssey, angry at the blinding of his son, Polyphemus, he holds Odysseus far from Ithaca, until at last the Phaeacians bring him home. Then in wrath he turns their vessel into stone.[35]
Such in brief are the eight great gods of the Homeric poems. Of these Zeus is easily the first, but in the first rank also are Athena and Apollo; Hera and Poseidon hold a second place; and Hephaestus, Ares, and Aphrodite belong to the third class. Many other divinities there are, but all of lesser rank, like Hermes whose duties are those of a higher servant or messenger. He is sent to escort King Priam to the tent of Achilles to ransom Hector’s body,[36] and he is despatched to Calypso’s isle to bid her let Odysseus go.[37] There are some indications that he is already the patron of thieves, as he is of servants. Dionysus and Demeter, so prominent in later Greece, have not yet won a place in the Olympic circle. There is no hint in the epics of the mysteries and the orgiastic cults which were afterwards of great significance. Hades, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, holds as his realm the dark abode of the dead, where he reigns with Persephone as queen. His murky kingdom is now represented as beneath the earth, again as far out on the bounds of Oceanus. But Hades takes no active part in either poem.
