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gone very wrong with the tradition, that they were groping for an answer, and that false quantities were no obstacle to conjectu ...
Aristophanic comedy sounds the same note. The women who went apart from the men around the time of the autumn sowing to celebrat ...
importance, and R. Osborne (1993) is surely right to stress that their competitive aspect is valued by the polis for the impetus ...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Time and Greek Religion James Davidson Time is one of the most important elements in any religious system. Like ...
who had a tomb at Olympia: ‘‘And they say the Moon fell in love with Endymion and bore him fifty daughters’’ (5.1.4). Moons chan ...
though they might be tempted to push the envelope occasionally: Athena delays dawn and extends the night so that Odysseus might ...
stars to resonate during festivals. Moreover, the Greeks often located entrances to the underworld at seaside lakes or lagoons, ...
through the ‘‘skylight’’ in its north porch, or even reflected in the pool of ‘‘sea water’’ associated with the marks of Poseido ...
New Year The ‘‘new year,’’ which might be defined as the occasion on which annual magistrates or sacred officials took up office ...
festivals were celebrated. On the 12th there was a feast of Cronus (Demosthenes 24.26), a ‘‘harvest home’’ festival in which sla ...
honored in the second libation and on the second day of each month. Sequential values can be ascribed according to some basic pr ...
reflect the god’s historical arrival, but rather project onto the historical level an essential quality of his divine personalit ...
without speaking, and straight from the jug (chous), as if in the course of the festival, the Athenians ‘‘unlearned’’ how to dri ...
was as if they fell asleep. They had every good thing, and the fruitful earth of its own accord produced crops, full and in abun ...
guarded by the Times, and ever-aging Tithonus living with Dawn, the Edge of Days herself, on the oceanic circumference. Human Ti ...
could represent time itself. Hence when Plato imagines time in reverse he imagines not just stars and luminaries moving backward ...
More positively, Greek religion, its myths and practices, constructs a vivid sense of ongoing process and sequence. This movemen ...
distance, to keep the gods gods, an exchange which did not just take place in an ongoing present, but helped to maintain that pr ...
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