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History Of Religions: Chapter V

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From: History of the World
Date: 19920101
Author:Foot Moore, George

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Chapter V

Poetry And Philosophy

The Higher Religion of Greece - Influence of the Literature - The Poets - Pindar - Aeschylus - Sophocles - Euripides - Aristophanes - The Philosophers - Socrates - Plato - Aristotle.

The higher religion of the Greeks is represented by the poets and the philosophers. It was they, not the priests, who conceived and set forth purer and loftier ideas of the gods and their dealings with men; they who affirmed the essentially moral character of true religion and the nature of true piety; they who, from different sides, advanced toward ...

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