Religion In Ancient Greece - Ancient Greek Culture and Civilization
Religion In Ancient Greece - Ancient Greek Culture and Civilization
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GREECE, RELIGION IN ANCIENT
|| I. THE GREEK GODS
1. Greek Myths
2. Mythology Distinguished from Religion
3. Local Shrines
4. Epithets of the Gods
5. Nature of the Gods of Worship
6. Relation of Greek Gods to Nature
7. The Greater Gods of Greece
8. Nature Gods
9. Gods of Human Activities and Emotions
II. REVELATION:
INSPIRATION
1. Omens
2. Divination by Sacrifice
3. Dreams
4. Oracles
III. FORMS OF WORSHIP
1. Shrines
2. Temples
3. Priests
4. Seasons of Worship:
Festivals
5. Elements of Worship
6. Prayer
7. Burnt Offering, or Sacrificial Meal
8. Meaning of Sacrifice
9. Propitiatory Sacrifice
10. Purification
11. The Great Religious Festivals
12. Mysteries at Eleusis
13. Absence of Magic and Mystery
IV. THE FUTURE LIFE
1. Funeral Rites
2. Future Life in the Homeric Poems
3. Later Beliefs in Immortality
V. SIN, EXPIATION, AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
1. Greek Idea of Sin
2. Religious Ideals
VI. THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK RELIGION ON CHRISTIANITY
1. Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology
2. Greek Influence on Christian Liturgy
3. Greek Influence on the Sacraments
LITERATURE
I. The Greek Gods.
1. Greek Myths:
The gods of ancient Greece are well known to our western civilization through the myths which have found so large a place in our literature. In Greece itself, fancy had free play in dealing with these divine beings, and the myths were the main treasure-house from which the poet drew; the same myths and the same gods, under different names, reappear in Rome; and Rome passed them on, a splendid heritage of imagination, to the literatures of later Europe. It is characteristic of myths that they deal with persons, not so different from men in
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http://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/greece-religion-in-ancient.html
http://www.leadershipclassics.org/AncientGreekCulture&Civilization.html
GREECE, RELIGION IN ANCIENT
|| I. THE GREEK GODS
1. Greek Myths
2. Mythology Distinguished from Religion
3. Local Shrines
4. Epithets of the Gods
5. Nature of the Gods of Worship
6. Relation of Greek Gods to Nature
7. The Greater Gods of Greece
8. Nature Gods
9. Gods of Human Activities and Emotions
II. REVELATION:
INSPIRATION
1. Omens
2. Divination by Sacrifice
3. Dreams
4. Oracles
III. FORMS OF WORSHIP
1. Shrines
2. Temples
3. Priests
4. Seasons of Worship:
Festivals
5. Elements of Worship
6. Prayer
7. Burnt Offering, or Sacrificial Meal
8. Meaning of Sacrifice
9. Propitiatory Sacrifice
10. Purification
11. The Great Religious Festivals
12. Mysteries at Eleusis
13. Absence of Magic and Mystery
IV. THE FUTURE LIFE
1. Funeral Rites
2. Future Life in the Homeric Poems
3. Later Beliefs in Immortality
V. SIN, EXPIATION, AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
1. Greek Idea of Sin
2. Religious Ideals
VI. THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK RELIGION ON CHRISTIANITY
1. Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology
2. Greek Influence on Christian Liturgy
3. Greek Influence on the Sacraments
LITERATURE
I. The Greek Gods.
1. Greek Myths:
The gods of ancient Greece are well known to our western civilization through the myths which have found so large a place in our literature. In Greece itself, fancy had free play in dealing with these divine beings, and the myths were the main treasure-house from which the poet drew; the same myths and the same gods, under different names, reappear in Rome; and Rome passed them on, a splendid heritage of imagination, to the literatures of later Europe. It is characteristic of myths that they deal with persons, not so different from men in