Παρουσίαση
Greek religion has to some extent always remained familiar, but is far from easy to know and understand. Seemingly natural and yet atavistically estranged, refined and barbaric at the same time, it has been taken as a guide again and again in the search for the origin of all religion. But as a historical phenomenon it is unique and unrepeatable, and is itself the product of an involved prehistory. In Western tradition an awareness of Greek religion was kept alive in three ways: through its presence in ancient literature and in all literature formed on that model, through the polemics of the Church Fathers, and through its assimilation in symbolic guise to Neoplatonic philosophy. The allegorical method of exposition, which taught that the names of the gods should be understood on the one hand as natural and on the other hand as metaphysical entities, had at the same time also been taken over in literature and philosophy alike. This offered possibilities for attempting a reconciliation with the Christian religion. Friedrich Creuzer's Symbolik is the last large-scale and thoroughly unavailing endeavour of this kind. There was, however, another path which could be taken, namely, to construct a self-consciously pagan counter-position to Christianity. The fascination which this idea exercised can be traced from the time of the Renaissance to Schiller's poem Die Gotter Griechenlands (1788) and Goethe's Braut von Korinth (1797) and is evident again in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter F. Otto. (...) (from the publisher)Περιεχόμενα
IntroductionI. Prehistory and the Minoan-Mycenaean Age
II. Ritual and Sanctuary
III. The Gods
IV. The Dead, Heroes, and chthonic gods
V. Polis and Polytheism
VI. Mysteries and Asceticism
VII. Philosophical Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Greek Words
Index
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