Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Classic Reprint)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 145100009X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 702 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Literature as a starting-point for investigation, and especially the poems of Homer, I am compelled to disallow; yet literature is really my goal. It is further seen that the characteristic ritual of Homeric days was of the kind known to them as Olympian. I ts formulary is do ut des. In sharp contradistinction to this cheerful sacrificial feast, when we examine the supposed festival of Zeus at A thens, theD iasia, we find rites of quite other (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.). Sacrifice inH omer takes the form of an offering to the god to induce his favour. It is then in the temple of literature, if but as a hewer of wood and drawer of water, that I still hope to serve. Moreover the sacrificial banquet to which the god is bidden is shared by the worshipper. In Chapter I. A knowledge of, a certain sympathy with, the milieu of this primitive material is one step to the realization of its final form in tragedy. Introduction to inves
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