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Chapter IX: Part 9

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Man, First, 164;
Righteous, of Plato, 163;
Second, 163 f.;
Son of Man, 163

Man-God, worship of, 156 ff.

_Mana_, 19, 21, 24, 34, [157:1]

Marett, R. R., [124:1]

Margoliouth, Professor, [167:1]

Markos the Gnostic, 150

Marriage, Sacred, 17 f.

Maximus of Tyre, [77:1]

Mayer, M., 46 _n._

Meade, G. R. S., 172

Mediator between God and worshipper, 189;
Mithras as, 151;
Saviour as, 162

Medicine-king, as θεός, 25, 152;
powers of, 25

Megethos, 142

Meilichios, in the Diasia, 14-15, 19

Meister, R., [53:1]

Meyer, Ed., [154:3]

Mind, nature of, 209

Mithraic communities, 146

Mithraism, 148

Mithras, 123, 139, 152;
as Mediator, 151;
Liturgy, 146, 148;
religion of, 21

Mommsen, August, [14:1], [17:1], [18:1]

Monotheism, 69 f.

Moon, as Kourotrophos, 30;
as origin of Kosmos, 169;
divinity of, 136 ff.

Morals, minor, 177;
of antiquity, 177 f.;
of Christians, 178

Moret, [23:2]

Mother, Divine, 164;
Great, 185

Mülder, D., [53:1], [57:1]

Mullach, 172

Müller, H. D., [57:1]

Music of the Spheres, 142

Myres, J. L., 40

Mysteries, 93

Mystic letters, 219

Mysticism, 169

Mythology, Olympian, 75

Myths, Sallustius' treatment of, 221 f.;
why divine, 201;
five species, 202;
explanation of examples, 203-5

Naassenes, 146, 162

Nature, the return to, as salvation for man, 91

Nausiphanes, 101

Neo-Platonism, 181

Nerve, failure of, chap. iv.

Nikator, 155

Nilsson, M. P., [18:2], [21:2], [31:1], [32:1]

Nilus, St., 21

Norden, [159:1]

_Octavius_, 164, 182, [190:1]

Odin, 59

Ogdoas, 147

_Oimôgê_, 79, 116

Olympian expurgation, 61 f., 67 ff.;
family, 11;
reformation, 58, 61 ff.;
stage, 2;
theology, 4

Olympian Gods, brought by Northern invaders, 45;
character of, 46-58;
coming of, 43;
why so called, 44 f.

Olympian religion, achievements of, 72 ff.;
beauty of, 73;
conception of, 131;
failure of, 67-72

Olympians, origin of, 39 ff.

Olympus, Mount, 46

Optimism, 193

Oracles, 37-8

Oreibasius, 27

Oreibates, 27

Organization, social, 214

Origins, Religious, 1

Orphic Hymns, [30:1];
literature, [64:1]

Orphism, 148

_Orthia_, 32

Osiris, 166

Othin, [50:1]

οὐσία, [200:1]

Ovid, [52:2]

Ozymandia, 144

Pagan prayer, a, 197 f.;
reaction, 173 f.

Paganism, final development of, 192 f.;
struggle with Christianity, 195 f.

Palimpsest, manuscript of man's creed as, 199

Palladion, 52

Pallas, Athena as, 52, 71

Panaetius, 145

Paribeni, R., [20:2]

Parker, Mrs. Langloh, 12

Parmenides, 12, [113:2]

πάτρια, τὰ, 37

Paul. St., 2 f., 7, 23, 33, 60, 124, 137, 149, 158 _n._, 161, 164

Pauly-Wissowa, [14:1]

Pausanias, [27:3], [54:2], _passim_

Payne, E. J., [29:1], [30:1]

Pelasgians, 42, 44

πέμπτον σῶμα, 137

Periclean Age, 87, 89

Peripatetic School, 114 f., 116;
spirit, 122

_Peripatos_, 114

Persecution of the Christians, 181

Persephone, 74 f.

φαρμακός, 34

Pheidias, 50

φιλανθρωπία, 156, 158

φιλία, 104, 109

Philo, 172, 177

_Phusis_, 99, 134, [200:1]

Pindar, [31:3], 43, [52:2]

Pisistratus, 43, 53

πίστις, 7

Planets, seven, history and worship of, 140 ff.

Plato, 3, 13 _n._, 82-4, 109, 126, 129, 163

Pleasure, pursuit of, 110

Plotinus, 2, 4, [10:2], 135;
his union with God, 149

Plutarch, [27:3] 32{1}, [34:2], [54:2], _passim_

Poimandres, 162

Πολιάς, ἡ, or Πολιεύς, ὁ, 71

_Poliouchoi_, 67

Polis, collapse of, 80, 127 f.;
projection of, 71;
religion of, 71, 75 f.;
replaces Tribe, 66 f.

Polybius, 80

Porch, 114

Porphyry, [149:2], [188:2]

Poseidon, 54

Posidonius, 146, 159

Predestination, 145

Preuss, Dr., 2

Proclus, [209:2]

Proletariates, 194

Pronoia _or_ Providence, Stoic belief in, 90, 135

Providence, 210 f.

ψυχή, [200:1]

Ptah, 151

Ptolemaios Epiphanês, 156 f.

Punishment, eternal, 9;
why not immediate, 223

Purpose of Dramaturge, 97-100

Pythagoras, 167

Pythias, 116

Rack, martyrs happy on the, 192

Reason, as combatant of passion, 91

Redeemer, of the Gnostics, 162 f.;
Son of the Korê, 138

Redemption, mystery of, 163

Reformation, Olympian, 61 ff.

Refuge, City of, in the _Laws_, 83

Refugees, sufferings of, 102

Reinach, A. J., [25:1]

Reinach, S., [25:1], [68:1], 172

Reisch, E., [11:1]

Reitzenstein, xv, 126, [150:3], 172

Religion, description of, 5-9;
eternal punishment for error in, 9;
falseness of, 7 ff.;
Greek, extensive study of, xiii;
traditional, 127;
significance of, 1

Religious Origins, 1

_Republic_, 94

Retribution, 33

Reuterskiold, [21:3]

Revelations, divine, 171;
series of, to worshippers, 151

Revival, Hellenistic, 40 ff.

Ridgeway, Professor, [40:1], [54:1]

Righteousness, City of, in the _Republic_, 83

Rivers, Dr., [31:2]

Robertson Smith, Dr., 21 f.

Rome, a Polis, 127

Ruah, 138

Sacraments, 148

Sacrifice, human, 35, [61:1];
condemned by Theophrastus, [188:2];
Porphyry on, [188:2];
reason for, 219 f.

Sallustius, xvi, 165, 179-81, 183-5, 193

Saturn, 147

Saviour, as Son of God and Mediator, 161 f.;
dying, 35 f.;
Third One, 33

Sceptics, _jeux d'esprit_ of, 87

Schultz, W., 172

Schurtz, Ed., [31:1]

Schwartz, [159:1]

Scott, W., 172

Seeck, O., [53:1], 172

Sky, phenomena of, as origin of man's idea, 136

Snake, supernatural, 19

Social structure of worshippers, 151

Solon, 43

σῶμα, [200:1]

Sophocles, 123

_Sophrosynê_, 73, 83, 114, 152, 197

_Sors_: _see_ Fortune.

Sôtêr, 155

Soul, divinity of, 153-65;
human, as origin of man's idea, 136;
immortal, 186;
nature of, 209 f.;
salvation of, 164

Sparta, Athens defeated by, 80;
constitution of, 87;
power of, 81

Spirit, Holy, 137;
personified, 165

Stars, divinity of, 136 ff., [153:1]

Steiner, von H., _Mutaziliten_, [10:2]

Stoicism, 117, 146

Stoics, 3, 76, 95-7, 104, 109 f., 119, 128, 130, 145, 160, 165

Συμπάθεια τῶν ὅλων, 145

Sun, 187;
as Kouros, 30;
= both orb and ray, [203:1];
divinity of, 137 ff.;
worship of, 139

_Sunoikismos_, 63

Superstition, 130

Sweetness, Epicurus on, 106

Swine, sacred, 19

_Tabu_, 34 ff.

Tarn, W. W., [80:1], [152:2]

_Teletai_, 32

Thales, 2

θαρρεῖν, 95, 103 f.

Themis, 36, 37

Theodoret, 181

Theoi Adelphoi, 154

Theophrastus, 143, [188:2]

θεός = θεσός, 24;
use of the word by poets, 12

Thera, [18:2]

θεσμοί, derivation of, [16:1]

Thesmophoria, 16

Thespis, 43

Third One _or_ Saviour, 33

Thomson, J. A. K., 46 _n._

Thoth, 151

Thought, subjective, 128

Thracians, 150 f.

Thucydides, 41;
religion of, 175

Thumb, A., [43:1], [45:2]

Transmigration of souls, 224

Trigonometry, 122

Trinity, 164

Tritos Sôtêr, 163

Τύχη: _see_ Fortune

'Tyrants, Thirty', 84

Uncharted region of experience, 5 ff., 171, 198

_Urdummheit_, 2, 44, 72

Usener, [101:1], [113:2], [129:1], 172

Uzzah, 68

Vandal, [40:2]

Vegetarianism, [8:1]

Vegetation-spirit, 32

Verrall, A. W., [16:1]

Vice, definition of, 213 f.

Virgin, fallen, Korê as, 138

Virtue, definition of, 213 f.

Vision, 104

Warde Fowler, W., [17:1]

Webster, H., [31:1]

Week of seven days, established, 142 f.

Wendland, P., xvi, 126, 156, 172

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. von, [43:1], 59

Wisdom, Divine, personified, 165;
Wisdom-Teachers, 2

Woodward, A. M., [32:1]

Word, the, personified, 165

World, ancient and modern, 120;
blessedness of, 168;
end of, by fire, Christian belief in, 190;
eternal and indestructible, 186 f., 189, 208-9, 220-2

Xenophanes, 12

Xenophon, 79, 85, 86

Ξύνεσις, 73

Year-Daemon, 32 f.

Zeller, E., 128

Zeno, 96 f., 98, 109, 128

Zeus, Aphiktor, 28;
in Magnesia bull-ritual, 21;
Kourês, 150;
Meilichios, 14-15;
origin and character of, 49 f.;
watchdog of, 93

Zodiac, 144

Transcriber's Notes

The following corrections have been made to the text.

Page 99: if[original has is] he a governor, it is his function

Page 139: some more full-blooded and less critical
element[original has critica lelement]

Page 166: ('holy' and '[opening quote missing in
original]sacred', or perhaps more exactly 'lawful' and
'_tabu_')

Page 184: proceeds straight to the traditional[original has
traditiona]

Page 227: Antigonus Gonatas[original has Gonatus], [152:1]

Page 228: Chaldaeans[original has Chaldeans], 144, 151

Page 230: Kronos, 45[original has [43:2]]

Page 231: Mommsen, August, [14:1], [17:1],[comma missing in
original] [18:1]

Page 232: Pausanias, [27:3], [54:2], _passim_[original has
extraneous period]

Page 233: Plutarch, [27:3], [32:1], [34:2], [54:2],
_passim_[original has extraneous period]

Page 234: _Urdummheit_,[comma missing in original] 2, 44, 72

Footnote [16:2] A. B. Cook, _J. H. S._ xiv,[comma missing in
original] pp. 153-4

Footnote [28:1] Ἱκταῖος[smooth breathing mark missing in
original] are common

Footnote [33:2] Rom. vi.[period missing in original]
generally, 3-11

Footnote [53:1] Αθηναία[original has Ἁθηναία] is of course
simply 'Athenian'

Footnote [53:1] ἁ ϝ[original has capital digamma--source
document has small digamma]άνασσα;--ἁ θιὸς ἁ Γολγία

Footnote [90:1] see _Life_ in Diog.[original has Diorg.]
Laert.

Footnote [95:1] Diog.[original has Diorg.] Laert. vi. 96 ff.

Footnote [113:3] φεῦγε τὸ ἀκάτιον[original has κἀάτιον]

Footnote [152:2] Ferguson's _Hellenistic Athens_, e. g.[period
missing in original] p. 108 f.

Footnote [164:3] Gal. iv.[period missing in original] 9

Footnote [197:1] Mullach, _Fragmenta Philosophorum_,
iii.[period missing in original] 7

End of Project Gutenberg's Five Stages of Greek Religion, by Gilbert Murray

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