Note 65 — LECTURE II. The Origin and Contents of Primitive Religions.

The Greeks had but vague notions of an after life, and Professor Schrader remarks: “The cult of the dead has no place in the Homeric world.” Prehist. Antiqs. of the Aryan Peoples, p. 424. The “indigetes dii” of the Romans were rather heroes than divinities, though Arnobius, Adv. Gentes, lib. i., cap. 64, asserts that they were worshipped.