the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Page 461by William Smith - 1859 - 1293 pagesFull view - About this book
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1838 - 432 pages
...lamblichus. See Lobeck Aglaoph. p. 723. probable than that which holds them to have been the remains of a worship, •which preceded the rise of the Hellenic...both philosophical thought and religious feeling. It is extremely doubtful how far they were ever used as a vehicle for the exposition of theological... | |
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 1178 pages
...Greek myste ries, none seem more probable than that which holds them to have been the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...both philosophical thought and religious feeling. It is extremely doubtful how far they were ever used as a vehicle for the exposition of theological... | |
| William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 402 pages
...expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." EUTHE'RIA (t ELEUTHE'RIA (t^evBipia), the feast of liberty, a festival which the Greeks, after the... | |
| William Smith - Greece - 1851 - 366 pages
...expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, 44 they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." ELEUTHE'RIA (&evOtptd), the feast of liberty, a festival which the Greeks, after the battle of Plataeae... | |
| Charles Anthon - Greece - 1852 - 468 pages
...expected. The most sober and probable view is that according to which " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...rites, grounded on a view of nature less fanciful, more i jv. A., xv., 20. 3 SelaL ad Find., Ol. ix., 150. • Andoc., de Mya., p. 54. * Sematth. c. Mid.,... | |
| Horace - 1854 - 484 pages
...satisfactory result. The most probable supposition is that according to which " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...and religious feeling." Thirlwall, Hist, of Greece, Vol. II. p. 140. 28, 29. fragilem phaselum; the pi,aselns, which was properly an Egyptian vessel, was... | |
| William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1854 - 396 pages
...expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted toawakenbothphilosophical thought and religious feeling." ELEUTHE'RIA (Meuflfpia), the feast of liberty,... | |
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1860 - 586 pages
...than that which bolda them to have been the remain^of a worship which preceded the rise of thrHelleni< mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view...both philosophical thought and religious feeling. It is extremely doubtful how far they were ever used as a vehicle for the exposition of theological... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 854 pages
...a solution as any other seems to be that of Bishop Thirlwall, who finds in them ' the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought aud religions feeling.' The festival itself consisted of two parts, the greater and the lesser mysteries.... | |
| Cornelius Conway Felton - Greece - 1867 - 534 pages
...the superintendence of hereditary priesthoods. Thirlwall thinks, that " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." This conclusion is still furthei confirmed by the moral and religious tone of the poets, — such as... | |
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