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Five Stages of Greek Religion: The History of the Olympian Gods of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)

Five Stages of Greek Religion: The History of the Olympian Gods of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)

Twain, Charles
Murray, Gilbert

Hardcover

Religion General General World History

ISBN10: 1387890689
ISBN13: 9781387890682
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Jun 18 2018
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This edition of Gilbert Murray's renowned examination of how religion evolved in Ancient Greece, includes all of his original notes. Murray was a renowned scholar of Greek classics, who used his academic background as grounding for this astonishingly detailed book on the topic of the Olympian Gods. How the pantheon of Gods was conceived, and grew to eventually define large aspects of Ancient Greek culture, form the topics at hand. The book begins by examining the earliest surviving religious texts of Greek, identifying the first indications of the Gods in the lore. The increasing prevalence of writing among Greece's educated citizenry sparked a growth in the number of Gods and Goddesses, and the stories relating to them. However, Murray is careful to note that there is no single event or turning point. For a scholarly work, Five Stages of Greek Religion is of modest length. This attribute defines it as a superb introductory primer to aspects of Olympian religion.

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