INDEX
Reading edition
Achaioi, 45, 49
Acropolis, 71, 72
Aeschylus, [12:4], 43
Affection, 104, 109
Agesilaus, 86
Agriculture, Religion in, 5 f.
Alexander the Great, 92, 93, 94, 115, 159
Allegory, in Hellenistic philosophy, 165 ff.;
in Olympian religion, 74
ἀλληλοφαγία, [98:1]
Alpha and Omega, God as, 148
Anaximander, [33:1]
Angel = Megethos, 142;
star, 144
Animal sacrifice, 188 f.
Anthesteria, 16-18, 34
Anthister, [18:2]
Anthropomorphism, 10 ff., 140
Antigonus Gonatas, [152:1]
Antiochus I, 144
Anti-semitism, 162
Antisthenes, 87, 89 f., 96
Apathy, [103:1], 109
Apellôn = Apollôn, 51
Aphiktor, 28
Aphrodite, 57
Apollo, 50, 72
Apotheosis of Hellenistic kings, [152:1]
Apparitions, primitive belief in, 27
Apuleius, 148
Aquinas, 3
Archontes, 164
Ares, 57
Aretê, 89, 96, 99, 104 f.
Aristarchus of Samos, 141
Aristotle, 3, 114 f., 117, 120, 127, 136, 153, [154:3]
Ark of Israel, 68
Arnim, von, [129:1], 172
Arnold, Professor E. V., [100:1]
Asceticism in antiquity, 196
Astrology, 143 f., [211:1]
Astronomy, 97
Ἀθάνα (Ἀθήνη), [53:1]
Atheism, 181 f., 190
Athena, [53:1], 71, 72, 74;
= Athenaia Korê, 52;
Pallas, 52
Athens, effect of defeat of, 79 f.
Atomic Theory of Democritus, 101;
of Ionia, 105
Attis, 185
'Attributes', animals as, 20
Augustine, St., 175, 177
Aurelius, Marcus, religion of, 175 f.
Bacchos, 161
Bacon, Professor, 172
'Barbaroi' as opposed to Hellenes, 39;
βαρβαρόφωνοι, [42:2]
Bardesanes, [164:1]
Barnabas, St., 161
Beast-mask, 23-5
Bendis, 151
Bethe, E., [150:1]
Birth-rate, its effect on early Christian sects, 194
Blessedness, Epicurus on, 106
Body, Fifth, 137
βοῶπις, 24
Bousset, W., xv, 126, [150:3], 162, 172
Buddhism, 10
Bull, blood of, 20;
in pre-Hellenic ritual, 19-21
Bury, Professor J. B., xv
Carpenter, Dr. E., 172
Cauer, P., [49:1]
Centaurs, 60
Chaldaeans, 144, 151
Chance, 131, 147
Charles, Dr., 172
χρᾶν, 37
χρεία, 90
Christianity, 88, 90, 96, 109, 115, 119, 123-5, 173, 181 f., 192-5
Christmas, Father, 15
Christos, 163
Chthonioi, as oracles, 37
Cicero, [27:2]
Circular movement, [208:1]
City of gods and men, world as, 76;
of Refuge, in the Laws, 83;
of Righteousness, in the Republic, 83:
see Polis
Cleanthes, 135, 141, 165
Clemen, Carl, 172
Coinage, deface of, 90
'Collective Desire', God defined as the, 26, 29
Colotes, [111:1]
Comitatus, 46
Commagene, 144
Conceptions, Common, 200
Constantine, 194
Constantius, 179
Convention, 91
Conybeare, F. C., 172
Copernicus, 97
Corinna, 43
Cornford, F. M., [33:1]
Cornutus, 166
Cosmopolîtes, 92
Cosmos, 97-100, 208
Crates, [95:1], 166
Creeds, 173 f., 178, 183
Crucifixion, [163:1]
Cumont, F., [35:1], 126, 172
Cynics, 3, 90-2, 93-5, 104;
women among, [95:1]
Cyropaedeia, 85
Cyrus, 85
Daemon = Stoicheion, 142
Dance, religious, 27 f.
Davenport, F. M., [26:1]
Dead, worship of, 62
Deification, E. Bevan on, [154:2]
Deliverer, the, 108
Delos, 51
Delusio, 169
Demeter, 72
Democritus, Atomic Theory of, 101
Demos, 82
Demosthenes, 82
Destiny, Hymn to, 135:
see Fate
Dharma, 10
Diadochi, 155
Diasia, 14-15
διατριβή, 90
Dicaearchus, 121 f.
Didascaliae, 121
Dio Cassius, 142
Diocletian, 194 f.
Diodorus, 144 f.
Diogenes, 90-3, 95;
his 'tub,' 92
Diogenes of Oenoanda, [101:1], 114, 169 f.
Dione, 56
Dionysius, 17, 20, 72, 84, 159
δίοπτρα, 122
Disciples, qualifications and conduct of, 200
Discouragement due to collapse of the Polis, 81
Divine Mother, 164;
'Divine Wisdom', personified, 165
Dodds, E. R., [181:1]
Doutté, E., 26 f.
Dramaturge, 97
Drômenon, spring, 32 f.
Dümmler, [87:1]
Durkheim, Professor Émile, [6:1]
Earth, divinity of, 137;
Earth-mother, 29
ἡδονή, 106
Education, [113:3]
Ekstasis, 150
Elements, Apuleius on, 148;
divinity of, 137;
in the Kosmos, 142
ἐμψυχοῦν, [200:1]
Enthousiasmos, 150
Eôs, 53
Epictetus, morals of, 176
Epicureans, 3, 110 f., 113, 119, 130, 145 f., 181
Epicurus, 101-11, 113, 129 f., 135, 140 f., 170, [192:1]
Epiphanês, 155
Epiphanius, 172
ἥρωες, 37
Euergetês, 156
Euhemerus, 160
Eusebius, [27:4], 197
Evil, existence of, 215;
origin of, 186, 214-16
Expurgation of mythology, 75 f.;
Olympian, 61 f., 67 f.
Eye of Bel, 143
Failure, Great, 82
Fate, 132, 134, 145, 146 f., 211 f.
Federations, 80
Ferguson, W. S., [152:1]
First Cause, 185, 205 f.
Fortune, 91, 131 f., 212 f.
Fourth Century, Movements of, 3, 79-122
Gaertringen, Hiller von, [18:2]
Galaxy, 204
Games, Roman gladiatorial, 94
Garden, 107 f., 114
Gennep, A. Van., [31:1]
γέρων, 31
Gerontes, 36
Ghosts, 221
Giants, 60
γίγνεσθαι, forms of, 216 f.
γλαυκῶπις, 24
Gnostics, 3, 123, 128, 137 f., 148, 162
God, as the 'collective desire', 26, 29;
conception of, in savage tribes, 9;
does not rejoice, nor is angered, 218;
essence of, 158;
home of, 148;
of the Jews, 163;
rejections of, 222 f.;
unchangeable, 187;
Union with, 147
God-Man, as King, 152 f.
Gods, communion with, 188;
Cosmic and Hypercosmic, 206 f.;
men as, 136;
nature of, 200 f.;
Twelve, 207;
unchangeable, 217;
why worshipped, 218
Good, the, 88 f., 110, 185 f., 206;
happiness of, 224 f.;
Idea of, as Sun of the spiritual universe, 94
γραῦς, 31
Hagia Triada, sarcophagus of, 20
Halliday, W. R., [32:2]
Happiness, Natural, 104
Harnack, A., 193
Harrison, Miss J. E., xiv, 13-30, passim, [148:1]
Hartland, E. S., 9
Haverfield, Professor F. J., 127
Heath, Sir T., [141:1]
Heaven, Third, 149
Hebrews, 125
Hecataeus, 143
Heimarmenê, 134, 145, 211
Helen, Korê as, 138
Hellenes, conquered tribes took name of, 42;
no tribe of, existing in ancient times, 41;
same as Achaioi, 40
Hellenism, as standard of culture, 41
Hellenistic Age, 3 f., 114, 117, 125, 131, 144, 161, 167;
culture, 125;
philosophy, 165;
revival, 40 f.;
spirit, 152
Hera, 56
Heraclitus of Ephesus, 167
Herakles, 56, 89
Hermes, 55, 151
Hermetica, 148, 151
Hermetic communities, 146
Hermias, [116:1]
religion of, 175
Heroes, philosophers as, 153
Heroic Age, 48 f., 57
Heroism, religious, of antiquity, 192
Hesiod, 44, 64 f.
Hipparchia, [95:1]
Hippolytus, 172
Hogarth, D. G., [24:1]
Holocaust, 14
Homer, 9, 44 f., 48 f., [54:3], passim, 64 f.
Hosiôtêr, bull as, 20 f.
Hubert and Mauss, MM., [189:1]
Idealists, 82
Idols, defence of, [77:1]
Illusion, 112, 119
Impalement, [163:1]
Infanticide, 177
Initiations, Hellenistic, 148-52
Instinct, 100
Interpreters, Planets as, 144
Ionia, 59 f.
Ionian tradition, 101, 104
Ionians, 51
Iphigenia, [61:1]
Iranes, 32
Irenaeus, 172
Iris, 55
Isis, 151, 166
Isocrates, 81
Jacoby, [160:1]
Jaldabaoth = Saturn, 147
Javan, sons of, 42
Jews, 125, 151, 188;
God of, 163
Judaism, 193
Julian, xvi, 4, 179 ff., 184 f., 197
Justin, [64:1]
Kaibel, [61:1]
Kant, 136
Keraunos, 155
Kêres, 34
Kern, O., [21:2]
King, I., [29:1]
Kings, as gods, 191;
divine, titles of, 155 ff.;
predictions concerning, by Planets, 144;
worship of, 156
Koios, 166
Korê, 63 f.;
as fallen Virgin, 138;
Earth, 30;
Earth Maiden and Mother, 137
Kosmokratores, 146, 148, 164
Kosmos, 147, [200:1];
Moon as origin of, 169;
planets as Elements in, 142
Kourê, Zeus, 150
Kourêtes, 150;
Spring-song of, 30
Kouroi, 30;
dance of, 28
Kouros, 63 f., 71;
Megistos, 28;
Sun as, 30;
Year-Daemon, 32
Kourotrophos, Earth, 30
κράτος and βία, 25, [157:1]
Kronos, 45
κτίσαντα, 23
κτίσιν, 23
Kynosarges, 89
Lampsacus, 107
Λάθε βιώσας, 110
Leagues, 80
Leontion, 108
Life, inward, 119 f.
Λόγος, 135
Lucian, Icaro-Menippos, [15:1]
Lucretius, 38, 105, [106:1], 114
Lysander, 155
Lysias, 81
Macedon, 81, 127
Macedonians, 93, 116, 122
Mackail, Professor J. W., 42
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]
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
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
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
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
Pauly-Wissowa, [14:1]
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]
Pisistratus, 43, 53
πίστις, 7
Planets, seven, history and worship of, 140 ff.
Pleasure, pursuit of, 110
Plotinus, 2, 4, [10:2], 135;
his union with God, 149
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
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]
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.
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.
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
Thoth, 151
Thought, subjective, 128
Thracians, 150 f.
Thucydides, 41;
religion of, 175
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
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