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Read Ebook: Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or the Religion of the Homeric Age by Gladstone W E William Ewart
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OLYMPUS:
THE RELIGION OF THE HOMERIC AGE.
Homer's method not systematic Page 1
Incongruities of his Theo-mythology point to diversity of sources 2
Remnants of primitive tradition likely to be found in the Poems 3
Extra-judaical relations between God and man 6
With tradition it combines invention 9
It is a true Theology corrupted 9
It has not its basis in nature-worship 10
It could not have sprung from invention only 13
Sacrifices admitted to be traditional 15
Tendency of primitive religion to decay 17
Downward course of the idea of God 18
Decline closely connected with Polytheism 20
Inducements to Nature-worship 21
The deterioration of religion progressive 23
Paganism in its old age 25
The impersonations of Homer 26
The nature of the myths of Homer 29
Tradition the proper key to many of them 30
He exhibits the two systems in active impact 32
Steps of the downward process 33
Sources of the inventive portions 35
Originality of the Olympian system 37
The channels of early religious tradition 39
Some leading early traditions of Scripture 40
As to the Godhead 42
As to the Redeemer 42
As to the Evil One 43
Their defaced counterparts in Homer 43
Deities of equivocal position 46
Threefold materials of the Greek religion 48
Messianic traditions of the Hebrews 49
To be learned from three sources 49
Attributes ascribed to the Messiah 51
The deities of tradition in Homer 54
Minerva and Apollo jointly form the key 55
Notes of their Olympian rank 56
Of their higher antiquity 57
The Secondaries of Minerva 59
The Secondaries of Apollo 60
Argument from the Secondaries 63
Picture of human society in Olympus 64
Dignity and precedence of Minerva 66
Of Apollo 69
Minerva's relations of will and affection with Jupiter 70
Those of Apollo 71
Apollo the Deliverer of Heaven 72
Power of Minerva in the Shades 73
These deities are never foiled by others 74
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