The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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Religion does not seem at first to have had any connection with morals. Apparently (for we are merely guessing, or echoing Petronius, who echoed Lucretius) “it was fear that first made the gods”25 —fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings,
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