Concept
Ancient Greek religion
Overview
religion in ancient Greece
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A greater proof of the unnaturalness of Monotheism to the human mind before a certain period in its development, could not well be required. The highest form of Monotheism, Christianity, has persisted to the present time in giving partial satisfaction to the mental dispositions that lead to Polytheism, by admitting into its theology the thoroughly polytheistic conception of a devil. When Monotheism, after many…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Close in meaning to Ancient Greek religion; the term itself is not named.
The ways of life were luxurious and commonplace. Philosophy had become extravagant, eclectic, abstract, devoid of any real content. At length it ceased to exist. It had spread words like plaster over the whole field of knowledge. It had grown ascetic on one side, mystical on the other. Neither of these tendencies was favourable to literature. There was no sense of beauty either in language or in art.
Plato, Phaedrus
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The two were identical, for it was in the name of the guardian deity of the city that the State was originally governed and that justice was meted out. In Oriental realms, the ruler was the representative of the deity, and the priests were the State officials, as well as the devotees of science and art. Tradition, together with numerous usages preserved in custom and laws, testify to the same original unification of…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Ancient Greek religion; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Ancient Greek religion
- Heraclitus
- Alcmaeon of Croton
- Diogenes of Apollonia
- Xenophanes
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Olympiodorus the Younger
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Women in classical Athens
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Cult
- Aristophanes
- Ritual
- Symposium (ancient Greece)
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Aphrodite
- Afterlife
- Athena
- Classical Greece
- Athens
- Antoninus Pius
- Polis
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Ambrose
- Hesiod
- Heracles
- Vice
- Judaism
- Damascius
- Ancient Corinth
- Republic (Plato)
- Julian (emperor)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.