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range of sources, but this evidence presents us with more than simply an ordering of natural phenomena in a static grid of divin ...

Another consequence of the failure to appreciate the complexity of Greek religious attitudes is the excessive prominence given t ...

1998:124–5), or the opening words of the archaic poet Theognis, promising devoted attention to Apollo in return for success in h ...

dogmatic: it was not constructed around a unified set of doctrines, and it was above all the observance of rituals rather than f ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Greek Religion and Philosophy: The God of the Philosopher Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Von allen Geistern, die vern ...

gods, and religion are unprecedented. And no later thought, no later thinker, is unaffected by Plato. This is true of Aristotle ...

anything at all, however, while our souls are here in these inferior, perishable bodies, is due to our remembering what we saw o ...

unsure whether God gambles at dice or at roulette or, indeed, plays some other game that involves an element of chance. This lat ...

foundation for the objectively good life for human beings which would be able to defend itself and withstand all attack by argum ...

question is one concerning human behavior, and insofar as Socrates and Euthyphro talk about gods, it is within those ‘‘ethical’’ ...

remainder of the dialogue suggests that no human being has actually achieved this wisdom; by elimination, it is therefore only t ...

of everything in theRepublic. One can thus see already, on the basis of the early and middle dialogues, why later generations wo ...

This immediately raises a number of questions within the context of Plato’s dialogues:daimonion was the voice which Socrates hab ...

that, in terms of a hierarchy of things loved and desired, all else that is dear to and loved by usendsin this first thing which ...

we still love medicine if all disease and illness as such disappeared from the world? What would then be the function of medicin ...

cause-and-reason beyond all else, theTimaeusreverts to the popular notion, already encountered in theEuthyphro(12), of the highe ...

proposed solutions in philosophical religion from the Presocratics to early Christianity. A good discussion of Presocratic theol ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Greek Religion and Art T.H. Carpenter Our term ‘‘Greek art,’’ with its demands of selectivity, is an old-fash ...

monuments discussed were made in Athens and the majority of them were found there as well. The central question I address is: wh ...

Figure 26.1 Athletes preparing to wrestle in the presence of a judge on an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora. ca. 430 BC. N ...