Concept
Hellenistic religion
Overview
late form of ancient Greek religion
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The natural consequence was that the Latin language in time supplanted the Greek, and ecclesiastical thought flowed in the channels worn by the political thought that had preceded it. The struggle in later times for the supremacy of the state as against the church was merely the effort to return to a condition of things that had existed before the establishment of the church. The Greeks were not less patriotic than…
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
Close in meaning to Hellenistic religion; the term itself is not named.
Very soon there was not a city nor a town in Greece, that did not have, or at least believed that it had, its own particular god. If one had carefully examined this prodigious number of divinities, one would have clearly seen that they could be reduced, by elimination, to a small number and would finally end by being mingled in a sole Universal Being; but that was very difficult for people, flattered, moreover, by a…
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, The golden verses of Pythagoras
Close in meaning to Hellenistic religion; the term itself is not named.
The period of their zenith and, more particularly, the period in which they possessed a fair degree of stability, coincided absolutely with the time at which deity myth was at its height. In the age of a waning deity belief, it was only the influence of numerous elements of secular culture, combined with a high degree of adaptability to the conditions of individual States, such as the Roman mind…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Hellenistic religion; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Hellenistic religion
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Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.