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The Religious Thought of the Greeks

From Homer to the Triumph of Christianity, Second Edition

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Publication Date: 01/01/1925

385 pages

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  • Preface
  • 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. Bibliographies
  • Appendix II. Specimen of Roman Calendar
  • Index

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