{"product_id":"2940015596892","title":"Religion \u0026 Art In Ancient Greece","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreek religion may be studied under various aspects; and many recent\u003cbr\u003econtributions to this study have been mainly concerned either with the\u003cbr\u003eremote origin of many of its ceremonies in primitive ritual, or with the\u003cbr\u003emanner in which some of its obscurer manifestations met the deeper\u003cbr\u003espiritual needs which did not find satisfaction in the official cults.\u003cbr\u003eSuch discussions are of the highest interest to the anthropologist and\u003cbr\u003eto the psychologist; but they have the disadvantage of fixing our\u003cbr\u003eattention too exclusively on what, to the ordinary Greek, appeared\u003cbr\u003eaccidental or even morbid, and of making us regard the Olympian\u003cbr\u003epantheon, with its clearly realised figures of the gods, as a mere\u003cbr\u003esystem imposed more or less from outside upon the old rites and beliefs\u003cbr\u003eof the people. In the province of art, at least, the Olympian gods are\u003cbr\u003eparamount; and thus we are led to appreciate and to understand their\u003cbr\u003eworship as it affected the religious ideals of the people and the\u003cbr\u003eservices of the State. For we must remember that in the case of religion\u003cbr\u003eeven more than in that of art, its essential character and its influence\u003cbr\u003eupon life and thought lie rather in its full perfection than in its\u003cbr\u003eorigin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a short sketch of so wide a subject it has seemed inadvisable to make\u003cbr\u003eany attempt to describe the types of the various gods. Without full\u003cbr\u003eillustration and a considerable expenditure of space, such a description\u003cbr\u003ewould be impracticable, and the reader must be referred to the ordinary\u003cbr\u003ehandbooks of the subject. A fuller account will be found in Dr.\u003cbr\u003eFarnell's _Cults of the Greek States_, and some selected types are\u003cbr\u003ediscussed with the greatest subtlety and understanding in Brunn's\u003cbr\u003e_Griechische Gotterideale_. In the present volume only a few examples\u003cbr\u003eare mentioned as characteristic of the various periods. It may thus, I\u003cbr\u003etrust, serve as an introduction to a more complete study of the subject;\u003cbr\u003eand may, at the same time, offer to those who have not the leisure or\u003cbr\u003einclination for such further study, at least a summary of what we may\u003cbr\u003elearn from Greece as to the relations of religion and art under the most\u003cbr\u003efavourable conditions. It is easy, as Aristotle says, to fill in the\u003cbr\u003edetails if only the outlines are rightly drawn--[Greek: doxeie d' an\u003cbr\u003epantos einai proagagein kai diorthosai ta kalos echonta te perigraphe.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                                                           PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I.  IDOLATRY AND IMAGINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II.  ASPECTS OF RELIGION--POPULAR, OFFICIAL, POETICAL,\u003cbr\u003e        PHILOSOPHICAL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.  THE CONDITIONS OF RELIGIOUS ART IN GREECE  . . . . . . . . .  48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV.  ANTHROPOMORPHISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  V.  IDEALISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VI.  INDIVIDUALISM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.  PERSONIFICATION, CONVENTION, AND SYMBOLISM . . . . . . . . . 108","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080968126704,"sku":"2940015596892","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015596892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}