CHAPTER XVI

GREECE

People and land--Earliest religion; functional deities-- Growth of Greek gods--Stones, animals, trees--Greek religion is local--Artistic tendency--Early Eastern influences-- Homer--The Homeric gods--Worship in Homer--Omens--The state after death--Hesiod--The poets and the working religion--Rise of religious art--Festivals and games--Zeus and Apollo-- Change of the Greek spirit in sixth century B.C.--New religious feeling; the mysteries--Religion and philosophy . . 274-304

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