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Review: Greek Religion by Walter Burkert

Nature and the Nation

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Polytheism and Its Importance

Ritual offers the individual certain opportunities for expressing his personality. Polytheism, with its rich sense of reality, offers the in dual possibilities for self realization without allowing him to leave the common ground of what is considered human. In portions of the rituals, the songs were a, he says, indissolubly bound to the whole and shaped ever anew by the poets who make the myths shine in a fresh light.

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