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Five Stages of Greek Religion

Anyone who has been in Greece at Easter time, especially among the more remote peasants, must have been struck by the emotion of suspense and excitement with which they wait for the announcement "Christos anestê," "Christ is risen!" and the response "Alêthôs anestê," "He has really risen!" I have referred elsewhere to Mr. Lawson's old peasant woman, who explained her anxiety: "If Christ does not rise tomorrow we shall have no harvest this year" (Modern Greek Folklore, p. 573). We are evidently in the presence of an emotion and a fear which, beneath its Christian colouring and, so to speak, transfiguration, is in its essence,. | Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray 1 Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray Project Gutenberg s Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title Five Stages of Greek Religion Author Gilbert Murray Release Date October 14 2009 EBook 30250 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIVE STAGES OF GREEK RELIGION Produced by David Garcia David Newman Juliet Sutherland Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net Transcriber s Notes Words in Greek in the original have been transliterated and placed between plus signs . Words in Hebrew in the original have been transliterated and placed between pound signs . Words surrounded by underscores are in italics in the original. Characters superscripted in the original are enclosed in braces . Ellipses match the original. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray 2 There are diacritical accents in the original. In this text a represents the letter a with a macron. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. FIVE STAGES OF GREEK RELIGION BY GILBERT MURRAY Boston THE BEACON PRESS PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION Anyone who has been in Greece at Easter time especially among the more remote peasants must have been struck by the emotion of suspense and excitement with which they wait for the announcement Christos anestê Christ is risen and the response Aỉêthôs anestê He has really risen I have referred elsewhere to Mr. Lawson s old peasant woman who explained her anxiety If Christ does not rise tomorrow we shall have no harvest .