
Review: Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
Nature and the Nation
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Polytheism and Its Effect on the Study of the Humanities
He says polytheism means that many gods are worshipped, not only the same place and at the same time, but by the same community and by the same individual. And then he goes on to say, structuralism has recently become something of a slogan in the humanities. And this has also had its effect on the study of greek religion. So the greek panthe cannot be regarded as a closed and harmonized system.
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