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Title: Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray ISBN: 0-486-42500-2 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant exposition and insight
Comment: Murray's book should be the standard work on the subject. This small volume is the outgrowth of a lecture series given before the First World War. Murray traces the growth and development of Greek religion from it's beginnings in prehistorical animism to the full flowering of the major schools of philosophy, and thence to their extinction. Murray explores the irrational, Dionysic strand that emerged independantly of the Olympian mythos, and shows how both predate Homer. He considers the minor deities, such as the boundary statues (koures) mentioned by Thucydides in connection with Alcibiades' impiety. The eloquent chapters on the rise of philosophy-cum-religion are the most memorable in a memorable book. Murray's vingettes on the lives and actions of the founders of the famous schools - linked as they are in lineal descent from Socrates, Epicurus excepted, are excellent biographical sketches in their own right. His examination of the faults in each philosophical system, Aristotle's Pertpetetic School excepted, shows how, after banishing Olympian myth, essential to keeping hold of thinking minds, they let them back in, pantheistically, or as manifestations of the universal creator, etc. (Epicurus preached a materialism that did not fully recognize divinity, and so he may be partly excused, as well.) This book this lays out how the hellenistic world was prepared for the advent of Christanity, as the rise of philosophy asked the right questions to move thinkers beyond myth, and philosophy's subsequent fall into Neoplatonism and other pantheistic movements left the Greco-Roman world looking elsewhere for answers. An outstanding addition to any classical library. -Lloyd A. Conway
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Title: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by Jane Ellen Harrison ISBN: 0691015147 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 05 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. Dodds ISBN: 0520003276 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1951 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: From Religion to Philosophy by Francis MacDonald Cornford ISBN: 0691020760 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 08 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by William Keith Guthrie, L. Alderlink ISBN: 0691024995 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 20 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert ISBN: 0520058755 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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